In situ atomic-scale observation of twinning-dominated deformation in nanoscale body-centred cubic tungsten

Nature Materials

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 594-600

  Wang, Jiangwei ^a   Zeng, Zhi ^b   Weinberger, Christopher R ^c,d   Zhang, Ze ^e   Zhu, Ting ^b,f   Mao, Scott X ^a,f  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d Drexel University   (United States)

^e ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LOADING; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; TUNGSTEN; UNLOADING;

ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DEFORMATION TWINNING; DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; DOMINANT DEFORMATION MECHANISM; LOADING ORIENTATION; METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURE; NUCLEATION MECHANISM;

TWINNING;

EID: 84929957403     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4228     Document Type: Article

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