This review summarizes recent advances in the area of tribology based on the outcome of a
Lorentz Center workshop surveying various physical, chemical and mechanical phenomena …

Indentation is a remarkably flexible mechanical test due to its relative experimental
simplicity. Coupled with advances in instrument development, ease of implementation has …

This paper describes nanoindentation experiments on thin films of polycrystalline Al of
known texture and different thicknesses, and of single crystal Al of different crystallographic …

A framework for investigating size-dependent small-scale plasticity phenomena and related
material instabilities at various length scales ranging from the nano-microscale to the …

This paper reports a three-dimensional (3D) study of the microstructure and texture below a
conical nanoindent in a (111) Cu single crystal at nanometer-scale resolution. The …

Three newly identified cross-slip mechanisms from atomistic simulations of fcc crystals,
namely surface, bulk and intersection cross-slip types, were hierarchically informed into …

Nanoindentation is a well-stablished experiment to study the mechanical properties of
materials at the small length scales of micro and nano. Unlike the conventional indentation …

Nanoscale contact of material surfaces provides an opportunity to explore and better
understand the elastic limit and incipient plasticity in crystals. Homogeneous nucleation of a …

This book fills a gap by presenting our current knowledge and understanding of continuum-
based concepts behind computational methods used for microstructure and process …

We present a self-contained review of the discrete dislocation dynamics (DDD) method for
the numerical investigation of plasticity in crystals, focusing on recent development and …