Reverse hall-petch effect in ultra nanocrystalline diamond

IUTAM Bookseries

Volumn 13, Issue , 2009, Pages 171-179

  Remediakis, Ioannis N ^a   Kopidakis, Georgios ^a   Kelires, Pantelis C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS; AVERAGE GRAIN SIZE; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; GRAIN DIAMETER; GRAIN SIZE; HALL-PETCH EFFECTS; MECHANICAL RESPONSE; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NANOCRYSTALLINE METAL; POLYCRYSTALLINE; SCALING RELATIONS; SMALL GRAIN SIZE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; ULTRA-NANOCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND;

ELASTIC CONSTANTS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MODEL STRUCTURES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

NANOSYSTEMS;

EID: 84862283062     PISSN: 18753507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9557-3_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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