An insight into the role of the grain boundary in plastic deformation by means of a bicrystalline pillar compression test and atomistic simulation

Acta Materialia

Volumn 61, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 7454-7465

  Kheradmand, Nousha ^a,b   Vehoff, Horst ^a   Barnoush, Afrooz ^a,b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Compression test; Electron backscatter diffraction; Grain boundary; Molecular dynamics; Size effect

Indexed keywords

ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS; CRYSTAL LATTICE ROTATION; DISLOCATION DENSITIES; DISLOCATION NUCLEATION; ELECTRON BACK SCATTER DIFFRACTION; INTERACTION OF DISLOCATIONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; SIZE EFFECTS;

COMPRESSION TESTING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL LATTICES; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS);

EID: 84885613891     PISSN: 13596454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2013.08.056     Document Type: Article

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