Exciting metallurgical breakthroughs of the last decades alongside the development and
wide-ranging availability of new and more capable experimental and theoretical tools for …

Modelling the mechanical behavior of polycrystalline materials based on their evolving
microstructure and the anisotropic properties of their constituent single crystal grains is …

The mechanical response of multiphase alloys is governed by the microscopic strain and
stress partitioning behavior among microstructural constituents. However, due to limitations …

The present work addressed the effects of heat treatment on the mechanical response of a
WE43 Mg alloy using an integrated framework of SEM-DIC experiment and CPFE …

Basal-to-basal slip transfer across grain boundaries was analyzed through the combination
of slip trace analysis and electron back-scatterer diffraction in weakly-textured pure Mg …

Precipitate free zones (PFZ) near grain boundaries of aluminum alloys are known to have
important effects on the localization of plastic deformation in these regions. The objective of …

Selective laser melted (SLM) metallic materials commonly possess typical columnar grains
growing epitaxially along the building direction and substantial microscale internal stresses …

This paper investigates the intergranular deformation behavior and its effect on the overall
ductility of a Mg-Gd-Y alloy, using in-situ tension in scanning electron microscopy (SEM) …

The effect of aging on the accumulation of microscale plasticity, and the resulting
macroscopic mechanical behavior, were examined in the magnesium alloy WE43 under …

Texture weakening is generally adopted as one of the prominent methods to improve the
ductility of Mg alloys. In this work, we designed and fabricated the Mg-1Zn-1Sn-0.3 Y-0.2 Ca …