Hardness as an indicator of material strength: a critical review

G Pintaude - Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Hardness is a powerful property to evaluate the deformation behavior of materials. It serves
as confident quality control for several processes, especially in the heat treatment of metals …

Atomistic studies of nanoindentation—A review of recent advances

CJ Ruestes, IA Alhafez, HM Urbassek - Crystals, 2017 - mdpi.com
This review covers areas where our understanding of the mechanisms underlying
nanoindentation has been increased by atomistic studies of the nanoindentation process …

Molecular dynamics simulation of nanoindentation in Al and Fe: On the influence of system characteristics

HT Luu, SL Dang, TV Hoang, N Gunkelmann - Applied Surface Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Indentation is one of the most widely used methods to determine the characteristics of
metallic materials. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are a powerful tool to investigate …

Monolithic DNApatite: An Elastic Apatite with Sub‐Nanometer Scale Organo–Inorganic Structures

JW Lee, B Lee, CH Park, JH Heo, TY Lee… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Hydroxyapatite (HA) exhibits outstanding biocompatibility, bioactivity, osteoconductivity, and
natural anti‐inflammatory properties. Pure HA, ion‐doped HA, and HA‐polymer composites …

Atomistic understanding of incipient plasticity in BCC refractory high entropy alloys

X Liu, D Hua, W Wang, Q Zhou, S Li, J Shi, Y He… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding the incipient plastic behavior of refractory high-entropy alloys (RHEAs) is
crucial for their high-temperature applications. In this study, the initial dislocation nucleation …

Comparative simulation study of the structure of the plastic zone produced by nanoindentation

Y Gao, CJ Ruestes, DR Tramontina… - Journal of the Mechanics …, 2015 - Elsevier
Using molecular-dynamics simulation, we study nanoindentation in fcc (Cu and Al) and bcc
(Fe and Ta) metals by a spherical indenter and investigate the size of the plastic zone …

Effects of lattice distortion and chemical short-range ordering on the incipient behavior of Ti-based multi-principal element alloys: MD simulations and DFT calculations

X Zhang, J Yan, YH Chen, R Kevorkyants… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
One of key factors in designing high-performance alloys is to understand their incipient
behavior. To get detailed real-time atomic scale evolutions of multi-principal element alloys …

Plastic deformation mechanism and defect patterning under nanoindentation in medium entropy alloy CoCrNi

L Zhu, X Zhang, WR Jian, Z **e, X Yao - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, molecular dynamics simulations are employed to study the mechanical
response and plastic deformation evolution of single-crystal medium entropy alloy (MEA) …

A new loop-punching mechanism for helium bubble growth in tungsten

H **e, N Gao, K Xu, GH Lu, T Yu, F Yin - Acta Materialia, 2017 - Elsevier
Growth of helium (He) bubbles with different initial sizes in tungsten (W) has been
investigated by performing molecular dynamics simulations. Based on the simulation results …

Probing the crystal structure and dislocation evolution in single crystal Al0. 3CoCrFeNi high-entropy alloy under nanoindentation

Q Wang, B Wang, W Yuan, B Gu - Materials Today Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
The elastic-plastic deformation behavior of single crystal Al 0.3 CoCrFeNi high-entropy alloy
under nanoindentation and its plastic deformation mechanisms at the atomic scale are …