Additive manufacturing features rapid production of complicated shapes and has been
widely employed in biomedical, aeronautical and aerospace applications. However, additive …

While research on lightweight materials has been carried out for decades, it has become
intensified with recent climate action initiatives leading pathways to net zero. Aluminum …

The advantage of 3D printing—that is, additive manufacturing (AM) of structural materials—
has been severely compromised by their disappointing fatigue properties,. Commonly, poor …

Simultaneously investigating strain partitioning and the underlying deformation mechanisms
for both the grain interior and the grain boundary (GB) is essential for understanding the …

In recent years, it has been found that multiple cracks coexist in the existing steel bridge
orthotropic steel decks (OSDs) longitudinal rib-to-floorbeam (RF) details. The synergistic …

Titanium alloys are widely employed in aerospace applications due to an outstanding
combination of properties. The variety of loading conditions and microstructures …

Additively manufactured 316L stainless steels display significantly higher yield strength than
their as-cast or wrought counterparts. This is associated with the micro-scale cellular …

Advanced experimental and numerical approaches are being developed to capture the
localization of plasticity at the nanometer scale as a function of the multiscale and …

Nanoindentation based techniques were significantly enhanced by continuous stiffness
monitoring capabilities. In essence, this allowed to expand from point-wise discrete …

A novel FFT-based phase-field fracture framework for modelling fatigue crack initiation and
propagation at the microscale is presented. A damage driving force is defined based on the …