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Twin behaviour and size

Nature Materials volume 9, pages 295–296 (2010)Cite this article

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For a Ti alloy single crystal, the stress required for deformation twinning increases dramatically as the size of the crystal decreases, until at submicrometre sizes, deformation occurs solely by dislocation motion.

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Figure 1: Mechanical data as a function of the crystal size (d) for Ti alloy micropillars1 compared with the typical strength values for Ni micropillars.
Figure 2: Schematic of the stimulated-slip model1.

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