Yielding and irreversible deformation below the microscale: surface effects and non-mean-field plastic avalanches.

Nanoindentation techniques recently developed to measure the mechanical response of crystals under external loading conditions reveal new phenomena upon decreasing sample size below the microscale. At small length scales, material resistance to irreversible deformation depends on sample morphology....

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Main Authors: Paolo Moretti, Benedetta Cerruti, M-Carmen Miguel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3110187?pdf=render