Heterostructured (HS) materials are a new class of materials that are composed of
heterogeneous zones with dramatically different (> 100%) mechanical or physical …

The grain size, and therefore the grain boundary density, is known to play a major role in the
flow stress of metallic materials. A linear relationship to the inverse of the square root of the …

Nanocrystalline (nc) materials can be defined as solids with grain sizes in the range of 1–
100 nm. Contrary to coarse-grained metals, which become more difficult to twin with …

Nanocrystalline metals and alloys, with average and range of grain sizes typically smaller
than 100 nm, have been the subject of considerable research in recent years. Such interest …

Gradient structured (GS) materials are ubiquitous in biological systems and now
increasingly adopted in engineering systems to achieve desirable combinations of …

Focusing on nanocrystalline (nc) pure face-centered cubic metals, where systematic
experimental data are available, this paper presents a brief overview of the recent progress …

In nanostructured metals with grain sizes of the order of 100 nm, dislocation mechanisms
remain dominant in controlling plastic deformation. These materials, similar to their coarse …

Two of the key parameters that are useful for understanding the deformation kinetics in
metals with ultrafine grain (UFG) and/or nanocrystalline (nc) microstructure are the strain …

In recent years, near-nano (submicron) and nanostructured materials have attracted
increasingly more attention from the materials community. Nanocrystalline materials are …

This paper describes mechanistic models that seek to rationalize experimentally determined
low values for the activation volume associated with the high strain rate sensitivity of …