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Nanoscale fracture

To twin or not to twin

Nature Materials volume 6, pages 795–796 (2007)Cite this article

Can atomistic simulations of fracture in some metals be wrong or misinterpreted? A seeming controversy between modelling and experiment is reconciled by a clever multiscale simulation technique bridging time- and length-scales.

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Figure 1: Nanoscale crack propagation in aluminium.

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  1. Vesselin I. Yamakov is at the National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, Virginia 23666, USA yamakov@nianet.org,

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  2. Edward H. Glaessgen is at the NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia 23681, USA. edward.h.glaessgen@nasa.gov,

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Yamakov, V., Glaessgen, E. To twin or not to twin. Nature Mater 6, 795–796 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2041

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