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Maoyuan Jiang, Zhengxuan Fan, Serge Kruch, Benoit Devincre
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLASTICITY
(2022)
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Yilun Xu
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLASTICITY
(2021)
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Masato Wakeda, Ya-Ling Chang, Seiichiro Ii, Takahito Ohmura
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLASTICITY
(2021)
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Himanshu Joshi, Junyan He, Nikhil Chandra Admal
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(2022)
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Maoyuan Jiang, Benoit Devincre
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COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE
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Qizhen Li
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Dun Wu, Kaiguo Chen, Yaxin Zhu, Lv Zhao, Minsheng Huang, Zhenhuan Li
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MECHANICS OF MATERIALS
(2021)
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D. V. Bachurin, R. T. Murzaev, A. A. Nazarov
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Mohammed Mendas, Stephane Benayoun, Mohamed Hadj Miloud, Ibrahim Zidane
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(2021)
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Wenkai Fu, Yulan Li, Shenyang Hu, Peter Sushko, Suveen Mathaudhu
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COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE
(2022)
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Bin Zhang, Andrew C. Meng, W. J. Meng
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(2021)
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(2021)
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Summary: This study used in situ TEM observations to directly reveal dislocation nucleation at grain boundaries in nanocrystalline metals. The findings contradict the common hypothesis predicted by molecular dynamic simulations, showing that complete dislocations can be emitted from grain boundaries in small-grained structures.
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(2019)
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Maoyuan Jiang, Ghiath Monnet, Benoit Devincre
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Maoyuan Jiang, Benoit Devincre
Summary: The influence of grain orientation on long-range internal stress associated with the accumulation of geometrically necessary dislocations (GNDs) during plastic deformation is numerically investigated. It is found that GNDs stored at grain boundaries (GBs) do not systematically generate a backstress within grains. Surprisingly, accumulation of GNDs at certain GB interfaces leads to the emergence of long-range anti-backstress, promoting dislocation dynamics and plastic strain within the grains. This discovery provides guidelines to improve the physical content of current crystal plasticity models.
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(2022)
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Maoyuan Jiang, Zhengxuan Fan, Serge Kruch, Benoit Devincre
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(2007)
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(2024)
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(2024)