[HTML][HTML] Severe plastic deformation for producing superfunctional ultrafine-grained and heterostructured materials: An interdisciplinary review

K Edalati, AQ Ahmed, S Akrami, K Ameyama… - Journal of alloys and …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Ultrafine-grained and heterostructured materials are currently of high interest due to their
superior mechanical and functional properties. Severe plastic deformation (SPD) is one of …

Science and art of ductile grinding of brittle solids

H Huang, X Li, D Mu, BR Lawn - International Journal of Machine Tools …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Prior to any practical application, brittle material components may need to be machined to a
high degree of precision in order to avoid functional breakdown as well as to maintain …

[HTML][HTML] Silicon phase transitions in nanoindentation: Advanced molecular dynamics simulations with machine learning phase recognition

G Ge, F Rovaris, D Lanzoni, L Barbisan, X Tang… - Acta Materialia, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Closing the gap between experiments and simulations in the investigation of high-pressure
silicon phase transitions calls for advanced, new-generation modeling approaches. By …

Micromechanics of machining and wear in hard and brittle materials

BR Lawn, O Borrero‐Lopez, H Huang… - Journal of the …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Hard and brittle solids with covalent/ionic bonding are used in a wide range of modern‐day
manufacturing technologies. Optimization of a sha** process can shorten manufacturing …

[PDF][PDF] Phase transformations in silicon under contact loading

V Domnich, Y Gogotsi - Reviews on Advanced Materials Science …, 2002‏ - researchgate.net
This review provides an analysis of the state of the art in the emerging research area of high-
pressure surface science of silicon. Phase transformations and amorphization that occur in …

Indentation-induced phase transformations in silicon: influences of load, rate and indenter angle on the transformation behavior

J Jang, MJ Lance, S Wen, TY Tsui, GM Pharr - Acta Materialia, 2005‏ - Elsevier
Nanoindentation has been used widely to study pressure-induced phase transformations in
Si. Here, a new aspect of the behavior is examined by making nanoindentations on (100) …

Threshold damage mechanisms in brittle solids and their impact on advanced technologies

BR Lawn, H Huang, M Lu, Ó Borrero-López, Y Zhang - Acta materialia, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Threshold damage mechanisms in brittle covalent–ionic solids are outlined. Fracture and
deformation modes are analyzed in terms of classical contact mechanics. Distinctions are …

Micro-and nanoindentation techniques for mechanical characterisation of materials

NK Mukhopadhyay, P Paufler - International materials reviews, 2006‏ - Taylor & Francis
Indentation techniques have been extensively used for mechanical characterisation of
materials. Development of instrumented indentation techniques at low and ultra low load …

Nanoindentation pop‐in in oxides at room temperature: dislocation activation or crack formation?

X Fang, H Bishara, K Ding, H Tsybenko… - Journal of the …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Most oxide ceramics are known to be brittle macroscopically at room temperature with little
or no dislocation‐based plasticity prior to crack propagation. Here, we demonstrate the size …

[HTML][HTML] Current understanding of surface effects in microcutting

YJ Lee, H Wang - Materials & Design, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Machining processes have made technological leaps in achieving ultraprecision material
removal and surface finishing at the submicrometric scale. At this level of precision, size …