Plasticity in small-sized metallic systems: Intrinsic versus extrinsic size effect

Progress in Materials Science

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 654-724

  Greer, Julia R ^a   De Hosson, Jeff Th M ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK MATERIALS; CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; COMBINED EFFECT; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DISLOCATION DENSITIES; ELASTIC MATERIALS; ENGINEERING PROCESS; MATERIAL DEFORMATION; MATERIAL STRENGTH; METALLIC STRUCTURES; METALLIC SYSTEMS; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; NON-TRIVIAL; POWER-LAW FASHIONS; PRECIPITATE SIZE; PROPERTIES AND MATERIALS; SAMPLE SIZES; SIZE EFFECTS; SMALL SCALE; SMALL-SCALE STRUCTURES; STRENGTHENING MECHANISMS; SUBMICRON SCALE; TEST SPECIMENS; THEORETICAL STRENGTH; TWIN BOUNDARIES; ULTIMATE TENSILE STRENGTH; UNIAXIAL DEFORMATION; WORK HARDENING; YIELD STRENGTH;

DEFORMATION; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MATERIALS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MECHANISMS; MICROSTRUCTURE; SINGLE CRYSTALS; STRAIN HARDENING; STRENGTHENING (METAL);

TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 79955070567     PISSN: 00796425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmatsci.2011.01.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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