background: in treating patients with radiation, the degree of accuracy for the delivery of tumor dose is recommended to be within ± 5% by icru in report 24. the experimental studies have shown that the presence of low-density inhomogeneity in areas such as the lung can lead to a greater than 30% change in the water dose data. therefore, inhomogeneity corrections should be used in treatment pla...

Boundaries and junctions (both internal and external) can contribute significantly to the plastic deformation of metallic solids, especially when the average size of the grains (phases) is less than hundred nanometres or when the size of the solid itself is of the order of microns. The overall permanent deformation of the solid is a result of a coupling between bulk plasticity with moving inter...

In the present study we elucidate nature of local strain statistics evolution during tensile deformation in polycrystalline materials. A rate-independent formulation was implemented within a crystal plasticity framework by means representative volume element (RVE) analysis. Local elastic strain, as well stress, were found to obey normal distribution, whereas plastic conforms lognormal distribut...

B. Ahn*, S. R. Nutt 1. Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-0241, USA *[email protected] Abstract: Al–Mg alloy powder was mechanically milled in liquid N2 (cryomilling) to produce thermally stable powder with nanocrystalline (NC) microstructure for the manufacture of highstrength alloys. A multi-scale microstructure w...

In inhomogeneously strained graphene, low-energy electrons experience a valley-antisymmetric pseudomagnetic field which leads to the formation of localized states at the edge between the valence and conduction bands, understood in terms of peculiar n=0 pseudomagnetic Landau levels. Here we show that such states can manifest themselves as an isolated quadruplet of low-energy conductance resonanc...

In-plane uniaxial pressure has been shown to strongly tune the superconducting state of Sr2RuO4 by approaching a Lifshitz transition and associated Van Hove singularity (VHS) in density states. At VHS, $T_c$ in- out-of-plane upper critical fields are all enhanced, latter changed its curvature as function temperature from convex concave. However, due strain inhomogeneity it not possible so far d...