Molecular simulation is a powerful computational tool for a broad range of applications
including the examination of materials properties and accelerating drug discovery. At the …

As the size of electronic and mechanical devices shrinks to the nanometre regime,
performance begins to be dominated by surface forces. For example, friction, wear and …

Indentation is a remarkably flexible mechanical test due to its relative experimental
simplicity. Coupled with advances in instrument development, ease of implementation has …

Molecular dynamics is employed to study the nanoindentation process of Cu 50 Zr 50
amorphous alloy. Deformation behavior of the substrate during indentation process is …

Finite element simulations have been used to investigate the influence of equi-biaxial
residual stress on the unloading behaviour of nanoindentation on elastic–plastic strain …

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were carried out to study the effects of indention
deformation, contact, and adhesion on Al, Ni, and Al/Ni multilayered films. The results show …

The fusion zone is the weak area of weld joint which will experience complex thermal
mechanical process during laser welding aluminum alloy 2024-T4. The resulting residual …

In chapters contributed by 24 university & government laboratories, Nanoengineering of
Structural, Functional, and Smart Materials combines wide-ranging research aimed at the …

In this work, three-dimensional molecular dynamics simulation is carried out to elucidate the
nanoindentation behaviour of single crystal Ni. The substrate indenter system is modelled …

In this paper, a three-dimensional multiscale method coupling molecular dynamics (MD) and
finite element (FE) analysis has been employed to study nanoindentation and nanoscratch …