Small-scale plasticity critically needs a new mechanics description

Continuum constitutive laws describe the plastic deformation of materials as a smooth, continuously differentiable process. However, provided that the measurement is done with a fine enough resolution, the plastic deformation of real materials is often found to comprise discrete events usually nanom...

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Main Author: Ngan Alfonso H.W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2013-06-01
Series:Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Materials
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/jmbm-2012-0004