Symposium MB5-Size Effects and Small-Scale Mechanical Behavior of Materials

Deformation and failure mechanisms in materials become size-dependent when sample dimensions and/or microstructures approach the sub-micrometer regime. Size effects include the increase in strength of nanopillars and nanowires, the rise in hardness and change in flow stress of nanocrystalline materials and multilayer thin films, or the improved fatigue lifetime found in studies of thin metallic films as well as materials that approach their theoretical strength. However, size effects can also manifest themselves as changes in deformation mechanisms such as a transition from plastic flow to fracture and vice versa.

This symposium will focus on the interplay between microstructural and deformation length-scales in inorganic materials. The goal of this symposium is to discuss the fundamental principles and deformation mechanisms leading to size effects in the mechanical behavior of materials and structures in terms of strength and plastic flow behavior. Experimental contributions but also closely related modeling or simulation papers of small-scale mechanical deformation are encouraged.

• Mechanical phenomena in small-scale materials and structures, including thin films and multilayers, micro- and nanopillars, nanowires and -tubes, nanocomposites and ultra-fine and nanocrystalline materials
• Microstructural evolution during deformation and new deformation mechanisms
• Size and length scale effects in the mechanical response of bioinspired inorganic materials
• Multiscale modeling and simulations of mechanical behavior of micro- and nanostructures
• Novel characterization techniques with improved spatial or temporal resolution
• Ex-situ and in-situ mechanical characterization

• MB5_Size Effects and Small-Scale Mechanical Behavior of Materials _0 (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
• MB5_Size Effects and Small-Scale Mechanical Behavior of Materials _1 (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
• MB5_Size Effects and Small-Scale Mechanical Behavior of Materials _2 (Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science, Austria)
• MB5_Size Effects and Small-Scale Mechanical Behavior of Materials _3 (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
• MB5_Size Effects and Small-Scale Mechanical Behavior of Materials _4 (University of Southern California, USA)
• MB5_Size Effects and Small-Scale Mechanical Behavior of Materials _5 (California Institute of Technology, USA)
• MB5_Size Effects and Small-Scale Mechanical Behavior of Materials _6 (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
• MB5_Size Effects and Small-Scale Mechanical Behavior of Materials _7 (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
• MB5_Size Effects and Small-Scale Mechanical Behavior of Materials _8 (University of Virginia, USA)
• MB5_Size Effects and Small-Scale Mechanical Behavior of Materials _9 (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
• MB5_Size Effects and Small-Scale Mechanical Behavior of Materials _10 (University of Michigan, USA)
• MB5_Size Effects and Small-Scale Mechanical Behavior of Materials _11 (Hong Kong University, Hong Kong)
• MB5_Size Effects and Small-Scale Mechanical Behavior of Materials _12 (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)