Evading the strength-ductility trade-off dilemma in steel through gradient hierarchical nanotwins

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wei, Yujie ^a   Li, Yongqiang ^a   Zhu, Lianchun ^a   Liu, Yao ^a   Lei, Xianqi ^a   Wang, Gang ^b   Wu, Yanxin ^c   Mi, Zhenli ^c   Liu, Jiabin ^d   Wang, Hongtao ^d   Gao, Huajian ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (China)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEEL;

CRYSTAL; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLASTICITY; TENSILE STRENGTH; TORSION; TRADE-OFF;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; MECHANICAL TORSION; PLASTICITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIMULATION; STRETCHING; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 84897450730     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4580     Document Type: Article

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