Nano-sized twins induce high rate sensitivity of flow stress in pure copper

Acta Materialia

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2169-2179

  Lu, L ^a,b   Schwaiger, R ^c   Shan, Z W ^d   Dao, M ^a   Lu, K ^b   Suresh, S ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF METAL RESEARCH   (China)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

Activation volume; Copper; Nanoindentation; Nanostructured metals; Rate sensitivity; Twins

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; DEFORMATION; ELECTRODEPOSITION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; HARDNESS; INDENTATION; LOADING; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NUCLEATION; STRESS ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VOLUME FRACTION;

ACTIVATION VOLUME; NANOSTRUCTURED METALS; NAOINDENTATION; RATE SENSITIVITY; TWINS;

COPPER;

EID: 14544288579     PISSN: 13596454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2005.01.031     Document Type: Article

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