Multiscale Mechanical Behavior of Metals

Dear Colleagues,

The mechanics of materials is a determinant for their processing and performances during operation. The responses of a material to stresses can be subdivided into elastic deformation, plastic deformation, and fracture. A further distinction considers the dynamics of loading, such as in impact testing or fatigue tests and tribological testing. Among materials, metals and alloys occupy a dominant position, owing to their processability and attractive properties, such as strength, ductility, and toughness.

Metals serve as a model to describe the relationships between structure and mechanical properties. It is accepted that the structure of a metals or alloys can be described at different length scales from atomic to macroscopic, over mesoscopic. The multidimensionality of metals and alloys gives rise to different constraints for their mechanical responses at different length-scales.

With the development of both experimental and computer simulation methods, the mechanical behavior of metals and alloys has become accessible at different length and time scales. For example, metals and alloys can be prepared as 1-, 2- or 3-dimensional samples, and testing methods can probe volumes ranging from sub-mm³ to macroscopic scales. Further, the microstructure of metallic alloys can be tuned down to the nanometer scale, as, for example, in nanocrystalline or -porous metals and alloys. Finally, new classes of metallic alloys have emerged in recent decades, with different mechanisms governing their mechanical responses: metallic glasses, high-entropy alloys, and intermetallics. The multiscale mechanical behavior of metals is thus a flourishing field of research, with a crucial impact on industrial application and technological development.

We invite researchers to contribute to the Special Issue on “Multiscale Mechanical Behavior of Metals”. This Special Issue is intended to serve as a forum covering recent understandings of the mechanical behavior of metals at different scales. Potential topics include but are not limited to the mechanical behavior of:

• Low dimensionality metallic specimens such as nanowires, nano/micropillars, and thin films and surfaces;
• Nanocrystalline and -porous metals and alloys;
• Cellular structures;
• Advanced engineering metallic alloys.

Dr. Arnaud Caron
Guest Editor

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• Metals and alloys
• Microstructures and devices
• Nanowires, thin films, and surfaces
• Mechanical behavior
• Mechanical testing
• Plastic deformation
• Fracture
• Tribology