Dislocation arrangement in small crystal volumes determines power-law size dependence of yield strength

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1531-1542

  Gu, R ^a   Ngan, A H W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Dislocations; Nanoindentation; Size effect; Transmission electron microscopy; Yield strength

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION EXPERIMENTS; DISLOCATION ARRANGEMENT; DISLOCATION NETWORKS; DISLOCATION VELOCITIES; INTERACTION MECHANISMS; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; SIZE EFFECTS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROGRAPH;

FRACTAL DIMENSION; NANOINDENTATION; SIZE DETERMINATION; STRAIN; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; YIELD STRESS;

DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS);

EID: 84876290006     PISSN: 00225096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2012.10.002     Document Type: Article

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