Size effects in multi-scale materials processing and manufacturing

MW Fu, JL Wang - International Journal of Machine Tools and …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Size effects (SEs) exist in many domains, and are caused by changes in the values of
parameters of materials, structures, or systems individually or collectively known as size …

Plasticity in small-sized metallic systems: Intrinsic versus extrinsic size effect

JR Greer, JTM De Hosson - Progress in Materials Science, 2011‏ - Elsevier
A material strength depends on its microstructure, which in turn, is controlled by an
engineering process. Strengthening mechanisms like work hardening, precipitate, and grain …

A highly distorted ultraelastic chemically complex Elinvar alloy

QF He, JG Wang, HA Chen, ZY Ding, ZQ Zhou… - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
The development of high-performance ultraelastic metals with superb strength, a large
elastic strain limit and temperature-insensitive elastic modulus (Elinvar effect) are important …

Damage-tolerant architected materials inspired by crystal microstructure

MS Pham, C Liu, I Todd, J Lertthanasarn - Nature, 2019‏ - nature.com
Architected materials that consist of periodic arrangements of nodes and struts are
lightweight and can exhibit combinations of properties (such as negative Poisson ratios) that …

Size effect, critical resolved shear stress, stacking fault energy, and solid solution strengthening in the CrMnFeCoNi high-entropy alloy

NL Okamoto, S Fujimoto, Y Kambara, M Kawamura… - Scientific reports, 2016‏ - nature.com
High-entropy alloys (HEAs) comprise a novel class of scientifically and technologically
interesting materials. Among these, equatomic CrMnFeCoNi with the face-centered cubic …

Exploration and development of high entropy alloys for structural applications

DB Miracle, JD Miller, ON Senkov, C Woodward… - Entropy, 2014‏ - mdpi.com
We develop a strategy to design and evaluate high-entropy alloys (HEAs) for structural use
in the transportation and energy industries. We give HEA goal properties for low (≤ 150° C) …

Aluminum with dispersed nanoparticles by laser additive manufacturing

TC Lin, C Cao, M Sokoluk, L Jiang, X Wang… - Nature …, 2019‏ - nature.com
While laser-printed metals do not tend to match the mechanical properties and thermal
stability of conventionally-processed metals, incorporating and dispersing nanoparticles in …

Overview of constitutive laws, kinematics, homogenization and multiscale methods in crystal plasticity finite-element modeling: Theory, experiments, applications

F Roters, P Eisenlohr, L Hantcherli, DD Tjahjanto… - Acta materialia, 2010‏ - Elsevier
This article reviews continuum-based variational formulations for describing the elastic–
plastic deformation of anisotropic heterogeneous crystalline matter. These approaches …

Size-dependent plasticity in an Nb25Mo25Ta25W25 refractory high-entropy alloy

Y Zou, S Maiti, W Steurer, R Spolenak - Acta Materialia, 2014‏ - Elsevier
High-entropy alloys (HEAs) are evolving multi-component intermetallic systems, wherein
multiple principal elements tend to form single solid-solution-like phases with a strong …

Unravelling the physics of size-dependent dislocation-mediated plasticity

JA El-Awady - Nature communications, 2015‏ - nature.com
Size-affected dislocation-mediated plasticity is important in a wide range of materials and
technologies. Here we develop a generalized size-dependent dislocation-based model that …