Size effects on the fracture of microscale and nanoscale materials

Disorder is good for you: the influence of local disorder on strain localization and ductility of strain softening materials

(2017) Dániel Tüzes et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FRACTURE

A MEMS Tensile Testing Technique for Measuring True Activation Volume and Effective Stress in Nanocrystalline Ultrathin Microbeams

(2017) Saurabh Gupta et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS

In situ thermomechanical testing methods for micro/nano-scale materials

(2017) Wonmo Kang et al.   Nanoscale

Size dependent fracture strength and cracking mechanisms in freestanding polycrystalline silicon films with nanoscale thickness

(2016) R. Vayrette et al.   ENGINEERING FRACTURE MECHANICS

Simulation of mechanical performance limits and failure of carbon nanotube composites

(2016) Benjamin D Jensen et al.   MODELLING AND SIMULATION IN MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

Brittle-to-Ductile Transition in Metallic Glass Nanowires

(2016) D. Şopu et al.   NANO LETTERS

High strength and high modulus carbon fibers

(2015) Han Gi Chae et al.   CARBON

Load transfer strengthening in carbon nanotubes reinforced metal matrix composites via in-situ tensile tests

(2015) Biao Chen et al.   COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Size effects on the fracture behavior of amorphous silica nanowires

(2015) Cheng Zhang et al.   COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE

On-chip fracture testing of freestanding nanoscale materials

(2015) Renaud Vayrette et al.   ENGINEERING FRACTURE MECHANICS

High-temperature tensile testing machine for investigation of brittle–ductile transition behavior of single crystal silicon microstructure

(2015) Akio Uesugi et al.   JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Size effects on tensile and compressive strengths in metallic glass nanowires

(2015) Xiaoling Zhou et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Size-Dependent Brittle-to-Ductile Transition in Silica Glass Nanofibers

(2015) Junhang Luo et al.   NANO LETTERS

In situ atomic-scale observation of twinning-dominated deformation in nanoscale body-centred cubic tungsten

(2015) Jiangwei Wang et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

The fracture of bulk metallic glasses

(2015) B.A. Sun et al.   PROGRESS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE

The Microstructural Evolution and Mechanical Properties of Zr-Based Metallic Glass under Different Strain Rate Compressions

(2015) Tao-Hsing Chen et al.   Materials

Fracture Size Effects in Nanoscale Materials: The Case of Graphene

(2015) Alessandro Luigi Sellerio et al.   Physical Review Applied

Mechanisms of Failure in Nanoscale Metallic Glass

(2014) X. Wendy Gu et al.   NANO LETTERS

(Finite) statistical size effects on compressive strength

(2014) J. Weiss et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fracture Strength: Stress Concentration, Extreme Value Statistics, and the Fate of the Weibull Distribution

(2014) Zsolt Bertalan et al.   Physical Review Applied

Enhancing the Tensile Properties of Continuous Millimeter-Scale Carbon Nanotube Fibers by Densification

(2013) Frances A. Hill et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

An apparatus for performing microtensile tests at elevated temperatures inside a scanning electron microscope

(2013) Gi-Dong Sim et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Nano-Scale Tensile Testing and Sample Preparation Techniques for Silicon Nanowires

(2013) Tatsuya Fujii et al.   JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Shear bands in metallic glasses

(2013) A.L. Greer et al.   MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING R-REPORTS

Crystalline Liquid and Rubber-Like Behavior in Cu Nanowires

(2013) Yonghai Yue et al.   NANO LETTERS

From Damage Percolation to Crack Nucleation Through Finite Size Criticality

(2013) Ashivni Shekhawat et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

High-temperature tensile behavior of freestanding Au thin films

(2013) Gi-Dong Sim et al.   SCRIPTA MATERIALIA

In Situ Study of Size and Temperature Dependent Brittle-to-Ductile Transition in Single Crystal Silicon

(2012) Wonmo Kang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

A modified Weibull model for tensile strength distribution of carbon nanotube fibers with strain rate and size effects

(2012) Gengzhi Sun et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Fracture statistics of dental ceramics: Discrimination of strength distributions

(2012) Serkan Nohut et al.   CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL

Mechanical Properties of Si Nanowires as Revealed by in Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy and Molecular Dynamics Simulations

(2012) Dai-Ming Tang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Thickness and grain size dependence of the strength of copper thin films as investigated with bulge tests and nanoindentations

(2012) Benoit Merle et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE

Fracture Strength of Disordered Media: Universality, Interactions, and Tail Asymptotics

(2012) Claudio Manzato et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Size effects in Al nanopillars: Single crystalline vs. bicrystalline

(2011) Allison Kunz et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Emergence of strain-rate sensitivity in Cu nanopillars: Transition from dislocation multiplication to dislocation nucleation

(2011) Andrew T. Jennings et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Dependence on diameter and growth direction of apparent strain to failure of Si nanowires

(2011) M. S. Steighner et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

The effect of gauge length on tensile strength and Weibull modulus of polyacrylonitrile (PAN)- and pitch-based carbon fibers

(2011) Kimiyoshi Naito et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE

Softened Elastic Response and Unzipping in Chemical Vapor Deposition Graphene Membranes

(2011) Carlos S. Ruiz-Vargas et al.   NANO LETTERS

Direct Atomic-Scale Imaging about the Mechanisms of Ultralarge Bent Straining in Si Nanowires

(2011) Lihua Wang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Ripping Graphene: Preferred Directions

(2011) Kwanpyo Kim et al.   NANO LETTERS

Plasticity in small-sized metallic systems: Intrinsic versus extrinsic size effect

(2011) Julia R. Greer et al.   PROGRESS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE

The elastic properties, elastic models and elastic perspectives of metallic glasses

(2011) Wei Hua Wang   PROGRESS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE

Tensile and compressive behavior of tungsten, molybdenum, tantalum and niobium at the nanoscale

(2010) Ju-Young Kim et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Exploring Nanomechanical Behavior of Silicon Nanowires: AFM Bending Versus Nanoindentation

(2010) Yong-Jae Kim et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Plasticity in Confined Dimensions

(2010) Oliver Kraft et al.   Annual Review of Materials Research

The properties of dry-spun carbon nanotube fibers and their interfacial shear strength in an epoxy composite

(2010) Fei Deng et al.   CARBON

Size and temperature effects on the fracture mechanisms of silicon nanowires: Molecular dynamics simulations

(2010) Keonwook Kang et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLASTICITY

Effects of size on the strength and deformation mechanism in Zr-based metallic glasses

(2010) Dongchan Jang et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLASTICITY

Reliability of a Weibull analysis using the maximum-likelihood method

(2010) Milan Ambrožič et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE

In Situ Electron Microscopy Mechanical Testing of Silicon Nanowires Using Electrostatically Actuated Tensile Stages

(2010) Dongfeng Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS

Transition from a strong-yet-brittle to a stronger-and-ductile state by size reduction of metallic glasses

(2010) Dongchan Jang et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Tensile deformation of electroplated copper nanopillars

(2010) Andrew T. Jennings et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE

Microstructure versus Size: Mechanical Properties of Electroplated Single Crystalline Cu Nanopillars

(2010) Andrew T. Jennings et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Strength distribution of particles under compression

(2010) Yevgeny Rozenblat et al.   POWDER TECHNOLOGY

Strength variation and cast defect distribution in metallic glasses

(2010) C.J. Lee et al.   SCRIPTA MATERIALIA

Microcompression study of Mg (0001) single crystal

(2010) Erica Lilleodden   SCRIPTA MATERIALIA

Stronger silicon for microsystems

(2009) B.L. Boyce et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Brittle-to-Ductile Transition in Uniaxial Compression of Silicon Pillars at Room Temperature

(2009) Fredrik Östlund et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Plasticity of Micrometer-Scale Single Crystals in Compression

(2009) Michael D. Uchic et al.   Annual Review of Materials Research

Thermally activated model for tensile yielding of pristine single-walled carbon nanotubes with nonlinear elastic deformation

(2009) M. Wen et al.   CARBON

Novel Microtensile Method for Monotonic and Cyclic Testing of Freestanding Copper Thin Films

(2009) M.-T. Lin et al.   EXPERIMENTAL MECHANICS

Mechanical Properties of Vapor−Liquid−Solid Synthesized Silicon Nanowires

(2009) Yong Zhu et al.   NANO LETTERS

Atomic Mechanisms Governing the Elastic Limit and the Incipient Plasticity of Bending Si Nanowires

(2009) Kun Zheng et al.   NANO LETTERS

The Ultimate Strength of Glass Silica Nanowires

(2009) Gilberto Brambilla et al.   NANO LETTERS

Size Effects in Mechanical Deformation and Fracture of Cantilevered Silicon Nanowires

(2009) Michael J. Gordon et al.   NANO LETTERS

Ultrahigh Strength Single Crystalline Nanowhiskers Grown by Physical Vapor Deposition

(2009) Gunther Richter et al.   NANO LETTERS

Molecular dynamics simulation of tensile elongation of carbon nanotubes: Temperature and size effects

(2009) Chun Tang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

A three-parameter Weibull statistical analysis of the strength variation of bulk metallic glasses

(2009) Z. Han et al.   SCRIPTA MATERIALIA

Tuning Array Morphology for High-Strength Carbon-Nanotube Fibers

(2009) Lianxi Zheng et al.   Small

High tensile strength reliability in a bulk metallic glass

(2008) J. H. Yao et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Is Weibull distribution the most appropriate statistical strength distribution for brittle materials?

(2008) Bikramjit Basu et al.   CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL

Compressive properties of Cu with different grain sizes: sub-micron to nanometer realm

(2008) Akhtar S. Khan et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE

Chemistry (intrinsic) and inclusion (extrinsic) effects on the toughness and Weibull modulus of Fe-based bulk metallic glasses

(2008) A. Shamimi Nouri et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE LETTERS

Describing bond-breaking processes by reactive potentials: Importance of an environment-dependent interaction range

(2008) Lars Pastewka et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Measurement of the Elastic Properties and Intrinsic Strength of Monolayer Graphene

(2008) C. Lee et al.   SCIENCE

Bulk and microscale compressive behavior of a Zr-based metallic glass

(2008) Y.H. Lai et al.   SCRIPTA MATERIALIA

A further step towards an understanding of size-dependent crystal plasticity: In situ tension experiments of miniaturized single-crystal copper samples

(2007) D. Kiener et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Strength, plasticity and brittleness of bulk metallic glasses under compression: statistical and geometric effects

(2007) W. F. Wu et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE

Reliability of compressive fracture strength of Mg–Zn–Ca bulk metallic glasses: Flaw sensitivity and Weibull statistics

(2007) Yuan-Yun Zhao et al.   SCRIPTA MATERIALIA