Mechanics of very fine-grained nanocrystalline materials with contributions from grain interior, GB zone, and grain-boundary sliding

International Journal of Plasticity

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2410-2434

  Barai, Pallab ^a   Weng, George J ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Grain boundary sliding; Inverse Hall Petch effect; Nanocrystalline materials; Strain rate sensitivity; Viscoplastic response

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION VOLUME; AMORPHOUS STATE; ATOMIC MOTION; ATOMIC-SCALE SIMULATIONS; CONSTITUENT PHASIS; CORRESPONDENCE PRINCIPLE; EQUIVALENT CONTINUUM; FLOW STRESS; GRAIN BOUNDARY REGIONS; GRAIN INTERIORS; GRAIN SIZE; GRAIN-BOUNDARY SLIDINGS; HALL-PETCH; HALL-PETCH PLOT; HARDNESS TEST; HIGH STRAIN RATES; HIGHER YIELD; HOMOGENIZATION SCHEME; INELASTIC DEFORMATION; INVERSE HALL-PETCH EFFECT; MD SIMULATION; MECHANICAL DEFORMATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMIC SIMULATIONS; NANOCRYSTALLINE CU; NANOCRYSTALLINE METAL; SIZE DEPENDENT; SIZE RANGES; STRAIN-RATE HARDENING; STRAIN-RATE SENSITIVITY; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; TWO PHASE COMPOSITES; UNIFIED APPROACH; UNIFIED CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS; VISCOPLASTIC; VISCOPLASTIC RESPONSE; WORK HARDENING; YIELD STRENGTH;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN BOUNDARY SLIDING; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; HARDENING; HARDNESS; HARDNESS TESTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOCRYSTALLINE ALLOYS; NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; PHASE INTERFACES; PLASTIC FLOW; SIMULATORS; STRESS ANALYSIS; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOSITY; YIELD STRESS;

STRAIN RATE;

EID: 70350094396     PISSN: 07496419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijplas.2009.04.001     Document Type: Article

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