Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) are investigating the effects of physical forces on metals by taking a direct look at atomic-level changes in metals undergoing shear ...

Introducing heterogeneities into the structure is an effective way to enhance the plasticity of metallic glasses (MGs). The original randomly distributed free volume in MGs, a natural heterogeneity, ...

Controllable deformations have a form which is independent of the specific form of the strain energy function. Necessary and sufficient conditions for a deformation to be controllable for three ...

The picture frame shear test method achieved some popularity in the early days of composite materials development when few other shear test methods existed. But as the two- and three-rail shear test ...

The lack of room-temperature plasticity of metallic glasses (MGs) severely restricts their structural applications; overcoming this is one of the hottest research topics in metallurgy. In Science ...