Bulk nanostructured (NS) materials processed by severe plastic deformation (SPD) have
received considerable attention for several decades. The physical origin of this processing …

With the increasing demand for light weight design in industries such as aerospace and
automotive, sheet metallic materials with high strength and low density have been …

Heterostructures can effectively break the traditional strength-ductility trade-off dilemma.
However, how the texture of materials with heterostructure under hetero-deformation …

Laser-based directed energy deposition (LDED) enables rapid near-net-shape fabrication of
large-scale titanium components for aerospace applications. However, the poor tensile …

How to suppress strain localization in tensioned nanograined layer and make it ductile? This
remains a great challenge. Here we explore the effects of microstructure inhomogeneity on …

This chapter reports the formation of dispersive shear bands in a hetero-structured Cu
composed of coarse-grained (CG) and ultrafine-grained (UFG) zones. Microscale digital …

During tensile deformation, nanostructured (NS) metals often fail soon after yielding by
forming a localized shear band. Here we report the observation of high density of shear …

The generalized stacking fault energy (γ surface) provides fundamental physics for
understanding the plastic deformation mechanisms. Using the ab initio exact muffin-tin …

Cyclic deformation responses of ultrafine-grained (UFG) Cu and nanocrystalline (NC) Cu–Al
alloys produced by equal channel angular pressing were investigated systematically by …

Anisotropic tensile behaviors of a heterogeneous nanostructured Cu composed of isotropic
nanograin matrix and anisotropic nanotwin bundles were investigated under loading …