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We present an atomistic study of the plastic deformation mechanisms occurring in columnar structures of nanocrystalline Ni, with particular emphasis on the process of dislocation emission form the grain boundaries. The samples are constructed with grain bo ...
Hot tear formation has been observed during the solidification of a succinonitrile–acetone (SCN-acetone) alloy by pulling the columnar dendrites in the transverse direction with a stick. It is observed that the cracking of the mushy zone (hot tears) always ...
Gallium impurities affect the atomic processes and material properties of aluminum metal to a high degree. Various ab initio calculations have been performed on a Sigma = 11 (113) symmetric tilt boundary in aluminum with and without some gallium substituti ...
Mechanisms responsible for the embrittlement of leaded "free-machining" copper alloys at intermediate temperatures (i.e. around 400 °C) are examined using a combination of microstructural and mechanical characterization. Tensile tests are conducted on pure ...
Combining the neat representation of boundary geometry of finite element models with the advantage of fast numerical solution of finite difference models, an irregular-grid finite difference scheme was developed to solve the hydrodynamic equations of motio ...
Tensile properties and microstructure of Danocrystalline electrodeposited Ni at temperatures between room temperature and 330° C are presented. Above 300° C low flow stress and high tensile elongation are observed along with grain growth and segreg ...
Phase contrast radiology using unmonochromatic synchrotron X-ray successfully imaged the grain boundaries of Al and AlZn alloy without contrast agent. Combining the high penetration of X-ray and the possibility of 3D reconstruction by tomorgraphy or stereo ...
Large-scale molecular dynamics of cascade production of the primary damage state are performed in nanocrystalline nickel with an average grain diameter of 12 nm and primary knock-on atom kinetic energies ranging from 5 to 30 keV. The role of the grain boun ...
Despite a large amount of data and numerous theoretical proposals, the microscopic mechanism of ransport in thick-film resistors remains unclear. However, recent low-temperature measurements point toward a possible variable-range-hopping mechanism of trans ...
In this article it is shown that Laguerre partitions of the unit torus yield faithful global representations of the geometry of ceramic polycrytals at the microscopic level. On this basis, a simulation model has been developed and tested reproducing some o ...
