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We have examined the micromechanical behavior of in situ formed metallic glass composites by performing in situ high-energy synchrotron X-ray scattering during uniaxial compression. The load partitioning between the amorphous matrix and the reinforcing par ...
The phenomenon of 2D nanoindentation of circular "Brinell" indenter into a single crystal metal thin film bonded to a rigid substrate is investigated. The simulation method is the coupled atomistics and discrete dislocation (CADD) model recently developed ...
Young's modulus, hardness and fracture toughness of highly ordered nanoporous alumina (PAA) were measured by nanoindentation and Vickers microindentation. A finite element model that accounts for the anisotropy and the pores was developed to extract the Yo ...
During nanoindentation measurements of thin films the formation of cracks within the film as well as of pile-up or sink-in around the indent are known to affect significantly the precision of hardness and Young's modulus values. The crack pattern in brittl ...
C60 fullerene reacted with phosphorus at high temperatures to graphitic materials with strongly differing properties. Several spectroscopic investigations as Raman, ESR, XPS and 31P-NMR as well as TEM and ESEM have shown that the structural order of the mo ...
This work is focussed on a high carbon tool steel used for the production of files. The mechanical properties of the files depend on a hardening thermal treatment that produces a martensitic structure. Thus, the motivation for this work is technological: w ...
The three-point bending test by Kolsky-bar apparatus is a convenient technique to test the dynamic fracture properties of materials. This paper presents detailed three-dimensional finite element simulations of a silicon particle reinforced aluminum (SiCp/A ...
Slip markings produced on the surfaces of Ni3(Al, Ta) single crystals, plastically deformed at various temperatures in the flow stress anomaly domain, were examined by atomic force microscopy (AFM). A dominant feature is that for all investigated temperatu ...
An optical fibre sensing technique for the measurement of dynamic deformations using a Michelson interferometer is reported. The method applied to interferometers with an initial path unbalance of around 1 cm is based on the rf intensity modulation of a lo ...
A detailed study of the strain-hardening on a Fe-9Cr-0.1C tempered martensitic model alloy has been undertaken in the temperature range of 77-343 K. The true stress-true strain curves were calculated from tensile test data. In the framework of a phenomenol ...
