Nanostructuring of titanium-based implantable devices can provide them with superior
mechanical properties and enhanced biocompatibity. An overview of advanced fabrication …

Grain boundaries (GBs) play a crucial role in the mechanical behaviors of nanocrystalline
materials. The dynamics of GBs depend on a variety of intrinsic and extrinsic factors …

In polycrystalline metals, local deformation heterogeneities induced by the microstructure
influence fatigue crack initiation and micro-crack propagation. The localization in plastic …

Abstract Spectral methods using Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithms have recently seen
a surge in interest in the mechanics of materials community. The present contribution …

Void nucleation on grain boundary (GB) has been regarded as an important mechanism of
damage initiation in ductile polycrystalline materials under dynamic loading. The high …

Coherent twin boundaries (TBs) in fcc metals are considered to have low energy.
Nevertheless, even TBs are preferred sites for crack nucleation in materials loaded at very …

This paper investigates the implementation of Field Dislocation Mechanics (FDM) theory for
media with a periodic microstructure (ie the Nye dislocation tensor and the elastic moduli …

A complete micromechanics-based model is here proposed using the concepts of
continuum kinematics and thermodynamics. A new constitutive framework is proposed to …

Incompatibility stresses can develop in bicrystals due to material elastic and plastic
anisotropies owing to different crystal orientations separated by grain boundaries. Here …

Grain boundary (GB) resistance to slip transmission was investigated computationally and
experimentally as a function of GB type. A geometry-based computational method quantified …