Quantitative insight into dislocation nucleation from high-temperature nanoindentation experiments

Nature Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 617-621

  Schuh, C A ^a   Mason, J K ^a   Lund, A C ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; INDENTATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS; DISLOCATION NUCLEATION; MECHANICAL CONTACTS; NANOINDENTATION;

NUCLEATION;

EID: 23244442315     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1429     Document Type: Article

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