Severe plastic deformation (SPD) is effective in producing bulk ultrafine-grained and
nanostructured materials with large densities of lattice defects. This field, also known as …

Severe plastic deformations (SPD) under high pressure, mostly by high-pressure torsion, are
employed for producing nanostructured materials and stable or metastable high-pressure …

Numerous experiments have documented that combination of severe plastic deformation
and high mean pressure during high-pressure torsion in rotational metallic, ceramic, or …

Review of selected fundamental topics on the interaction between phase transformations,
fracture, and other structural changes in inelastic materials is presented. It mostly focuses on …

This paper formulates stress-assisted and strain-induced austenite to martensite
transformation kinetics laws within a crystal plasticity framework to enable modeling of strain …

The first in situ quantitative synchrotron X-ray diffraction (XRD) study of plastic strain-induced
phase transformation (PT) has been performed on α− ω PT in ultra-pure, strongly plastically …

In order to suffice the stringent surface requirements imposed on silicon wafers, thorough
investigation of the fabrication methods is necessary. Typically, the processing conditions for …

The phase field approach (PFA) for the interaction of fracture and martensitic phase
transformation (PT) is developed, which includes the change in surface energy during PT …

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of the amorphous band nucleation and growth ahead
of the tip of a shuffle 60 o dislocation pileup at different grain boundaries (GBs) in diamond …

Ultrafine-grained and heterostructured materials are currently of high interest due to their
superior mechanical and functional properties. Severe plastic deformation (SPD) is one of …