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A. S. Parasnis

Bio: A. S. Parasnis is an academic researcher. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 330 citations.

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TL;DR: This work focuses on the interplay between the mechanisms that individually contribute to strength and toughness, noting that these phenomena can originate from very different lengthscales in a material's structural architecture.
Abstract: The attainment of both strength and toughness is a vital requirement for most structural materials; unfortunately these properties are generally mutually exclusive. Although the quest continues for stronger and harder materials, these have little to no use as bulk structural materials without appropriate fracture resistance. It is the lower-strength, and hence higher-toughness, materials that find use for most safety-critical applications where premature or, worse still, catastrophic fracture is unacceptable. For these reasons, the development of strong and tough (damage-tolerant) materials has traditionally been an exercise in compromise between hardness versus ductility. Drawing examples from metallic glasses, natural and biological materials, and structural and biomimetic ceramics, we examine some of the newer strategies in dealing with this conflict. Specifically, we focus on the interplay between the mechanisms that individually contribute to strength and toughness, noting that these phenomena can originate from very different lengthscales in a material's structural architecture. We show how these new and natural materials can defeat the conflict of strength versus toughness and achieve unprecedented levels of damage tolerance within their respective material classes.

2,350 citations

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21 Jan 2010-Nature
TL;DR: A ‘stimulated slip’ model is developed to explain the strong size dependence of deformation twinning in crystals, and the sample size in transition is relatively large and easily accessible in experiments, making the understanding of size dependence relevant for applications.
Abstract: Deformation twinning(1-6) in crystals is a highly coherent inelastic shearing process that controls the mechanical behaviour of many materials, but its origin and spatio-temporal features are shrouded in mystery. Using micro-compression and in situ nano-compression experiments, here we find that the stress required for deformation twinning increases drastically with decreasing sample size of a titanium alloy single crystal(7,8), until the sample size is reduced to one micrometre, below which the deformation twinning is entirely replaced by less correlated, ordinary dislocation plasticity. Accompanying the transition in deformation mechanism, the maximum flow stress of the submicrometre-sized pillars was observed to saturate at a value close to titanium's ideal strength(9,10). We develop a 'stimulated slip' model to explain the strong size dependence of deformation twinning. The sample size in transition is relatively large and easily accessible in experiments, making our understanding of size dependence(11-17) relevant for applications.

553 citations

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TL;DR: An overview of the most recent developments in the area of atomistic modeling with emphasis on interfaces and their impact on microstructure and properties of materials is given in this paper, along with some challenges and future research directions in this field.

455 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the microstructures of HESAs consisting of γ and γ′ phases are similar to that of Ni-base superalloys and refractory HEAs.

441 citations