Modeling of the size effect in the plastic behavior of polycrystalline materials

This thesis focuses on the study of the size effect in the elastic-viscoplastic response of pure face centered cubic polycrystalline materials. First, the effect of vacancy diffusion is studied via the use of a two-phase self-consistent scheme in which the inclusion phase represents grain interiors...

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Main Author: Capolungo, Laurent
Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2007
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1853/16276