Mechanical assessment of ultrafine-grained nickel by microcompression experiment and finite element simulation

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 266-277

  Schwaiger, Ruth ^a   Weber, Matthias ^a   Moser, Benedikt ^b,c   Gumbsch, Peter ^a,d   Kraft, Oliver ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c Suisse Technology Partners Ltd   (Switzerland)

^d FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MECHANICS OF MATERIALS IWM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ni; Simulation; Stress strain relationship

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; IN-SITU; LARGE STRAINS; LENGTH SCALE; MATERIAL PARAMETER; MICRO-COMPRESSION EXPERIMENTS; MICRO-SCALE TESTING; MICROCOMPRESSION; SIMULATION; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIPS; ULTRAFINE-GRAINED; VERSATILE METHODS; YIELD AND TENSILE STRENGTH;

EXPERIMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NANOINDENTATION; NICKEL; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; STRESS-STRAIN CURVES; TENSILE STRENGTH; THERMAL BARRIER COATINGS;

MECHANICAL TESTING;

EID: 84855607236     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: 20445326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2011.248     Document Type: Article

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