[HTML][HTML] Heterostructured materials

Y Zhu, X Wu - Progress in materials science, 2023 - Elsevier
Heterostructured (HS) materials are a new class of materials that are composed of
heterogeneous zones with dramatically different (> 100%) mechanical or physical …

Review on superior strength and enhanced ductility of metallic nanomaterials

IA Ovid'Ko, RZ Valiev, YT Zhu - Progress in materials science, 2018 - Elsevier
Nanostructured metallic materials having nanocrystalline and ultrafine-grained structures
show exceptional mechanical properties, eg superior strength, that are very attractive for …

[HTML][HTML] Multistage work hardening assisted by multi-type twinning in ultrafine-grained heterostructural eutectic high-entropy alloys

P Shi, Y Zhong, Y Li, W Ren, T Zheng, Z Shen, B Yang… - Materials Today, 2020 - Elsevier
High strength of materials usually comes with low ductility due to the lost or short-lived strain
hardening. Here, we uncover a sequentially-activated multistage strain hardening (SMSH) …

Significance of stacking fault energy in bulk nanostructured materials: insights from Cu and its binary alloys as model systems

XH An, SD Wu, ZG Wang, ZF Zhang - Progress in Materials Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Bulk nanostructured (NS) materials processed by severe plastic deformation (SPD) have
received considerable attention for several decades. The physical origin of this processing …

Extreme grain refinement by severe plastic deformation: A wealth of challenging science

Y Estrin, A Vinogradov - Acta materialia, 2013 - Elsevier
This article presents our take on the area of bulk ultrafine-grained materials produced by
severe plastic deformation (SPD). Over the last decades, research activities in this area have …

Deformation twinning in nanocrystalline materials

YT Zhu, XZ Liao, XL Wu - Progress in Materials Science, 2012 - Elsevier
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 …

Tensile properties, strain rate sensitivity, and activation volume of additively manufactured 316L stainless steels

Z Li, T Voisin, JT McKeown, J Ye, T Braun… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The tensile properties of additively manufactured (AM) metals and alloys are among the
most important variables that impact the potential applications of these materials. Here we …

Nanostructural hierarchy increases the strength of aluminium alloys

PV Liddicoat, XZ Liao, Y Zhao, Y Zhu… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Increasing the strength of metallic alloys while maintaining formability is an interesting
challenge for enabling new generations of lightweight structures and technologies. In this …

In-situ SEM observation of phase transformation and twinning mechanisms in an interstitial high-entropy alloy

M Wang, Z Li, D Raabe - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
The recently developed interstitial high-entropy alloys (iHEAs) exhibit an enhanced
combination of strength and ductility. These properties are attributed to dislocation …

[HTML][HTML] Ductility and plasticity of nanostructured metals: differences and issues

YT Zhu, XL Wu - Materials Today Nano, 2018 - Elsevier
Ductility is one of the most important mechanical properties for metallic structural materials. It
is measured as the elongation to failure of a sample during standard uniaxial tensile tests …