To quantitatively evaluate the three-dimensional lamellar curvature in pearlitic steel, crystallographic orientation rotation of ferrite and cementite was analyzed using scanning electron microscopy backscattering diffraction. In hypereutectoid steel containing 0.92% C, 0.30% Mn, 0.20% Si, 0.19% Cr, ferrite–cementite interfaces some colonies were confirmed to match well with those having freque...

The elastic and vibrational properties of iron-nickel and aluminum nanoparticles and nanocrystalline materials have been investigated on the basis of molecular dynamics simulations and the embedded atom method for the description of the materials. It is well known that nanocrystalline solids, with grain sizes in the nanometer range, exhibit often unsual properties like increased hardness due to...

The plane-strain bulge test is used to investigate the mechanical behavior of freestanding electroplated Cu thin films as a function of film thickness and microstructure. The stiffness of the films increases slightly with decreasing film thickness because of changes in the crystallographic texture and the elastic anisotropy of Cu. Experimental stiffness values agree well with values derived fro...

Understanding the grain size-dependent failure behavior of polycrystalline graphene is important for its applications both structurally and functionally. Here we perform molecular dynamics simulations to study the failure behavior of polycrystalline graphene by varying both grain size and distribution. We show that polycrystalline graphene fails in a brittle mode and grain boundary junctions se...

Displacive deformation via dislocation slip and deformation twinning usually plays a dominant role in the plasticity of crystalline solids at room temperature. Here we report in situ quantitative transmission electron microscope deformation tests of single crystal Sn samples. We found that when the sample size was reduced from 450 nm down to 130 nm, diffusional deformation replaces displacive p...

The microstructure development under plastic deformation up to large strains is modelled by means of a four-component reaction kinetics for the densities of mobile and immobile dislocations and disclinations. The resulting system of nonlinear differential equations is able to describe the transition from a dislocation-dominated to a disclination-controlled kinetics running into a (quasi-)statio...