Seventy years of Hall-Petch, ninety years of superplasticity and a generalized approach to the effect of grain size on flow stress

RB Figueiredo, M Kawasaki, TG Langdon - Progress in Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
The grain size, and therefore the grain boundary density, is known to play a major role in the
flow stress of metallic materials. A linear relationship to the inverse of the square root of the …

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 …

Adiabatic shear localization induced by dynamic recrystallization in an FCC high entropy alloy

K Jiang, J Li, X Kan, F Zhao, B Hou, Q Wei… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to their strong strain hardening, face-centered cubic (FCC) high/medium entropy alloys
(H/MEAs) have remarkable resistance to shear localization even under forced dynamic …

Effect of nanocrystalline and ultrafine grain sizes on the strain rate sensitivity and activation volume: fcc versus bcc metals

Q Wei, S Cheng, KT Ramesh, E Ma - Materials Science and Engineering: A, 2004 - Elsevier
Two of the key parameters that are useful for understanding the deformation kinetics in
metals with ultrafine grain (UFG) and/or nanocrystalline (nc) microstructure are the strain …

Temperature rise associated with adiabatic shear band: causality clarified

Y Guo, Q Ruan, S Zhu, Q Wei, H Chen, J Lu, B Hu… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
One of the most important issues related to adiabatic shear failure is the correlation among
temperature elevation, adiabatic shear band (ASB) formation and the loss of load capacity of …

Size effects on the mechanical properties of nanocrystalline NbMoTaW refractory high entropy alloy thin films

XB Feng, JY Zhang, YQ Wang, ZQ Hou, K Wu… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
The newly-surged high-entropy alloys (HEAs), in particular the refractory HEAs, manifest
excellent properties for practice applications. In this work, we systematically investigated the …

Strain hardening, strain rate sensitivity, and ductility of nanostructured metals

YM Wang, E Ma - Materials Science and Engineering: A, 2004 - Elsevier
This paper presents an overview of the strain hardening and strain rate hardening behavior
of nanostructured and ultrafine-grained metals. The experimental findings obtained in our …

Strain rate effects in the ultrafine grain and nanocrystalline regimes—influence on some constitutive responses

Q Wei - Journal of materials science, 2007 - Springer
Mounting evidence is pointing to some emerging novel behaviors of metals with ultrafine-
grain (UFG) and/or nanocrystalline (NC) microstructures. One such novel behavior is related …

Mechanical behavior and dynamic failure of high-strength ultrafine grained tungsten under uniaxial compression

Q Wei, T Jiao, KT Ramesh, E Ma, LJ Kecskes… - Acta Materialia, 2006 - Elsevier
We have systematically investigated the quasi-static and dynamic mechanical behavior
(especially dynamic failure) of ultra-fine grained (UFG) tungsten (W) under uniaxial …

Adiabatic shear banding in ultrafine-grained Fe processed by severe plastic deformation

Q Wei, L Kecskes, T Jiao, KT Hartwig, KT Ramesh… - Acta materialia, 2004 - Elsevier
We have investigated the plastic deformation behavior of ultrafine-grained (UFG) bulk Fe.
The UFG microstructure (grain size∼ 300 and∼ 150 nm) was obtained through combined …