A jogged dislocation governed strengthening mechanism in nanotwinned metals

Nano Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 5075-5080

  Zhou, Haofei ^a,b,c   Li, Xiaoyan ^b,c   Qu, Shaoxing ^a   Yang, Wei ^a   Gao, Huajian ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Brown University   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

atomistic simulation; Jogged dislocation; plastic deformation; threading dislocation; twin boundary

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PLASTIC DEFORMATION;

ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS; COLLECTIVE MOTIONS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; NANOTWINNED METALS; STRENGTHENING MECHANISMS; THEORETICAL MODELING; THREADING DISLOCATION; TWIN BOUNDARIES;

STRENGTHENING (METAL);

EID: 84914147427     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl501755q     Document Type: Article

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