X-ray microbeams are an emerging characterization tool with broad implications for science,
ranging from materials structure and dynamics, to geophysics and environmental science, to …

Plastic deformation is a highly dissipative process that induces a variety of patterns such as
the cell structure in multislip conditions, the matrix structure and the persistent slip bands in …

Under stress, crystals irreversibly deform through complex dislocation processes that
intermittently change the microscopic material shape through isolated slip events. These …

The fractal or Hausdorff dimension is a measure of roughness (or smoothness) for time
series and spatial data. The graph of a smooth, differentiable surface indexed in ℝ d has …

From the traditional viewpoint of continuum plasticity, plastic deformation of crystalline solids
is, at least in the absence of so-called plastic instabilities, envisaged as a smooth and quasi …

Surface roughness affects the functional properties of surfaces, including adhesion, friction,
hydrophobicity, biological response, and electrical and thermal transport properties …

Crystal plasticity is mediated through dislocations, which form knotted configurations in a
complex energy landscape. Once they disentangle and move, they may also be impeded by …

Roughness, defined as unevenness of material surfaces, plays an important role in
determining how engineering components or natural objects interact with other bodies and …

Most natural and man-made surfaces appear to be rough on many length scales. There is
presently no unifying theory of the origin of roughness or the self-affine nature of surface …

The capability of predicting the adhesion forces between a rough particle and surface
including the van der Waals force and capillary force is important for modeling various …