The appraisal is strongly focussed on challenges associated with the nuclear sector,
however these are representative of what is generally encountered by a range of …

While understructures formed by fatigue strain cycling, such as veins, ladders and cell
structures, bring about extrusions/intrusions on the surface of bulk metal, micro-sized metal …

A set of new investigation method is proposed for the fracture mechanics experiments and
analyses of nano-multilayered materials. The crack propagation behavior in a SiN/Cu nano …

This study presents an efficient methodology to assess fracture behavior in nanoscale
multilayers. After fabricating a nano-cantilever specimen of Cu/Si/SiN, a notch with the tip …

We developed a simple and inexpensive feedback regulated high cycle fatigue (HCF)
testing device intended to simplify the reliability assessment of macroscopic thin metal film …

Interfacial toughening in composite materials is reasonably well understood for static
loading, but little is known for cyclic loading. Here, we demonstrate that introducing an …

In this study a bending beam approach is miniaturized to the sub-micrometer size regime for
in-situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) investigations. The purpose of this study was …

The competitive fracture behavior in nano-multilayered structures is investigated by a new
analysis method combining the interaction energy integral method and the cohesive zone …

To investigate the fracture behavior of mixed-mode interfacial cracking in nanoscale
components, three different types of nano-specimens, including the nano-cantilever …

A novel notched nano-cantilever specimen consisting of a 1000-nm-thick SiN layer and a
200-nm-thick Cu layer on a Si substrate is proposed to evaluate the strength of a selected …