Initiation of fatigue damage in ultrafine grained metal films

Fatigue Crack Resistance of Ultrafine-Grained Copper Structures

Texture dependent strain rate sensitivity of ultrafine-grained aluminum films

Article history: Received 25 October 2015 Received in revised form 2 December 2015 Accepted 3 December 2015 Available online 17 December 2015 We investigated the strain rate sensitivity (SRS) of freestanding ultrafine-grained aluminum films with similar thickness (~240 nm) and mean grain size (~275 nm) but highly dissimilar texture. For (110) textured bicrystalline films, flow stress increased ...

Ultrafine-Grained Metals

Ultrafine-grained (UFG) metallic materials are at the cutting edge of modern materials science as they exhibit outstanding properties which make them very interesting for prospective structural or functional engineering applications. Due to the progress in severe plastic deformation techniques during the last decade, ultrafine-grained microstructures are no longer only restricted to easy to def...

Mechanical Behavior of an Ultrafine/Nano Grained Magnesium Alloy

The application of magnesium alloys is greatly limited because of their relatively low strength and ductility. An effective way to improve the mechanical properties of magnesium alloy is to refine the grains. As the race for better materials performance is never ending, attempts to develop viable techniques for microstructure refinement continue. Further refining of grain size requires, however...

Special Grain Boundaries in Ultrafine-Grained Tungsten

Field ion microscopy and computer simulation were used for the study of an atomic structure high-angle grain boundary in hard-drawn ultrafine-grained tungsten wire. These boundaries with special misorientations are beyond the scope of the coincident site lattice model. It was demonstrated that the special non-coincident grain boundaries are the plane-matching boundaries, and rigid-body displace...