Structural evolutions of metallic materials processed by severe plastic deformation

Y Cao, S Ni, X Liao, M Song, Y Zhu - Materials Science and Engineering: R …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Bulk nanostructured (ns)/ultrafine-grained (UFG) metallic materials possess very
high strength, making them attractive for high strength, lightweight and energy efficient …

Hall-Petch relationship in Mg alloys: A review

H Yu, Y ** a high-strength Al-Mg-Si-Sc-Zr alloy for selective laser melting: Crack-inhibiting and multiple strengthening mechanisms
R Li, M Wang, Z Li, P Cao, T Yuan, H Zhu - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
To develop high-strength Al alloys for selective laser melting (SLM) additive manufacturing,
we designed a series of Al-Mg (-Si)-Sc-Zr alloys and additively manufactured them using …

High stress twinning in a compositionally complex steel of very high stacking fault energy

Z Wang, W Lu, F An, M Song, D Ponge… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Deformation twinning is rarely found in bulk face-centered cubic (FCC) alloys with very high
stacking fault energy (SFE) under standard loading conditions. Here, based on results from …

Grain boundary stability governs hardening and softening in extremely fine nanograined metals

J Hu, YN Shi, X Sauvage, G Sha, K Lu - Science, 2017 - science.org
Conventional metals become harder with decreasing grain sizes, following the classical Hall-
Petch relationship. However, this relationship fails and softening occurs at some grain sizes …

Phase-field modeling of microstructure evolution: Recent applications, perspectives and challenges

D Tourret, H Liu, J LLorca - Progress in Materials Science, 2022 - Elsevier
We briefly review the state-of-the-art in phase-field modeling of microstructure evolution. The
focus is placed on recent applications of phase-field simulations of solid-state microstructure …

Fundamental deformation behavior in high-entropy alloys: An overview

HY Diao, R Feng, KA Dahmen, PK Liaw - Current Opinion in Solid State …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract High-entropy alloys (HEAs), as a new class of materials, are nearly equiatomic and
multi-element systems, which can crystallize as a single phase or multi-phases. Most of the …

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 …

Suppressing atomic diffusion with the Schwarz crystal structure in supersaturated Al–Mg alloys

W Xu, B Zhang, XY Li, K Lu - Science, 2021 - science.org
High atomic diffusivity in metals enables substantial tuneability of their structure and
properties by tailoring the diffusional processes, but this causes their customized properties …