Nucleation of dislocations beneath a plane strain indenter

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 649-673

  Shenoy, Vivek B ^a   Phillips, Rob ^a   Tadmor, Ellad B ^b  

^a Brown University   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL LATTICES; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HARDNESS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEATION; STRAIN; STRESSES;

ATOMISTIC SIMULATION; CONTACT MECHANICS; INDENTATION;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS;

EID: 0033904189     PISSN: 00225096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5096(99)00055-1     Document Type: Article

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