What really governs the upper bound of uniform ductility in gradient or layered materials?

Ductility Limit Diagrams for Superplasticity and Forging of High Temperature Polycrystalline Materials

(2020) Wei Zhang et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Shear band stability and uniform elongation of gradient structured material: Role of lateral constraint

(2020) Yanfei Wang et al.   Extreme Mechanics Letters

Mechanical properties and deformation mechanisms of gradient nanostructured metals and alloys

(2020) Xiaoyan Li et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Towards understanding the structure–property relationships of heterogeneous-structured materials

(2020) Jianguo Li et al.   SCRIPTA MATERIALIA

Enhanced strength–ductility synergy in ultrafine-grained eutectic high-entropy alloys by inheriting microstructural lamellae

(2019) Peijian Shi et al.   Nature Communications

An investigation of back stress formulations under cyclic loading

(2019) S.A. El-Naaman et al.   MECHANICS OF MATERIALS

Bifurcation instability of substrate-supported metal films under biaxial in-plane tension

(2019) Zheng Jia et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Towards strength–ductility synergy through the design of heterogeneous nanostructures in metals

(2017) Evan Ma et al.   Materials Today

Heterogeneous materials: a new class of materials with unprecedented mechanical properties

(2017) Xiaolei Wu et al.   Materials Research Letters

Lattice Rotation Patterns and Strain Gradient Effects in Face-Centered-Cubic Single Crystals Under Spherical Indentation

(2015) Y. F. Gao et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME

Extraordinary strain hardening by gradient structure

(2014) X. Wu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Making strong nanomaterials ductile with gradients

(2014) K. Lu   SCIENCE

Evading the strength–ductility trade-off dilemma in steel through gradient hierarchical nanotwins

(2014) Yujie Wei et al.   Nature Communications

Necking limit of substrate-supported metal layers under biaxial in-plane loading

(2013) Zheng Jia et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLASTICITY

Size and rate dependent necking in thin metallic films

(2013) T. Pardoen   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Revealing Extraordinary Intrinsic Tensile Plasticity in Gradient Nano-Grained Copper

(2011) T. H. Fang et al.   SCIENCE

The effect of film thickness on the failure strain of polymer-supported metal films

(2009) Nanshu Lu et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Enhanced strain-rate sensitivity in fcc nanocrystals due to grain-boundary diffusion and sliding

(2008) Yujie Wei et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA