Dislocation processes in the deformation of nanocrystalline aluminium by molecular-dynamics simulation

Nature Materials

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 45-48

  Yamakov, Vesselin ^a   Wolf, Dieter ^a   Phillpot, Simon R ^a   Mukherjee, Amiya K ^b   Gleiter, Herbert ^c  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; DEFORMATION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MICROSTRUCTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

DISLOCATION PROCESSES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0011443424     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat700     Document Type: Article

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