Competition between interface and bulk dominated plastic deformation in strain gradient plasticity

Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Fredriksson, P ^a   Gudmundson, P ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PLASTICITY; STRAIN HARDENING; YIELD STRESS; PLASTIC DEFORMATION;

ELASTIC-PLASTIC INTERFACE; LENGTH SCALE; STRAIN GRADIENT PLASTICITY;

PLASTIC DEFORMATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

BULK MATERIALS; LENGTH SCALE EFFECTS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PARAMETRIC STUDY; PLASTIC INTERFACES; PLASTIC STRAIN GRADIENTS; SIMPLE RULES; STRAIN-GRADIENT PLASTICITY;

EID: 34247257389     PISSN: 09650393     EISSN: 1361651X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0965-0393/15/1/S06     Document Type: Conference Paper

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