Extraordinary strain hardening by gradient structure

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 7197-7201

  Wu, Xiaolei ^a   Jiang, Ping ^a   Chen, Liu ^a   Yuan, Fuping ^a   Zhu, Yuntian T ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (China)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL; NANOFILM; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; GRADIENT STRUCTURE; GRAIN; MECHANICAL STRESS; NATURAL SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAXATION TIME; SURFACE PROPERTY; TENSILE STRENGTH; TENSION; THICKNESS;

GRADIENT STRUCTURED METAL; NANOCRYSTALLINE METAL;

BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; HARDNESS; MATERIALS TESTING; METALS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PRESSURE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 84901036372     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1324069111     Document Type: Article

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