Most cited papers in Microstructure and mechanical properties
What are the most cited papers in Microstructure and mechanical properties?
The most cited paper in Microstructure and mechanical properties is "Polymorphic transitions in single crystals: A new molecular dynamics method" (Michele Parrinello, Ananda Fathur Rahman, 1981), with 20,747 citations. Next come "The Deformation and Ageing of Mild Steel: III Discussion of Results" (7,874) and "Bulk nanostructured materials from severe plastic deformation" (6,495).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,243 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Polymorphic transitions in single crystals: A new molecular dynamics method Michele Parrinello, Ananda Fathur Rahman · Journal of Applied Physics | Dec 1981 | 20,747 |
| 2 | The Deformation and Ageing of Mild Steel: III Discussion of Results E.O. Hall · Proceedings of the Physical Society Section B | Sep 1951 | 7,874 |
| 3 | Bulk nanostructured materials from severe plastic deformation Ruslan Zufarovich Valiev, Rinat Kadykhanovich Islamgaliev, Igor V. Alexandrov · Progress in Materials Science | Mar 2000 | 6,495 |
| 4 | Fracture characteristics of three metals subjected to various strains, strain rates, temperatures and pressures Gordon R. Johnson, William H. Cook · Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 1985 | 6,353 |
| 5 | Mechanical properties of nanocrystalline materials Marc André Meyers, Avanish Mishra, David John Benson · Progress in Materials Science | 18 Nov 2005 | 4,611 |
| 6 | Indentation size effects in crystalline materials: A law for strain gradient plasticity William D. Nix, Huajian Gao · Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids | Mar 1998 | 4,401 |
| 7 | The deformation of plastically non-homogeneous materials Michael Farries Ashby · Philosophical magazine | Feb 1970 | 4,309 |
| 8 | Principles of equal-channel angular pressing as a processing tool for grain refinement Ruslan Zufarovich Valiev, Terence G. Langdon · Progress in Materials Science | 27 Apr 2006 | 4,148 |
| 9 | Hall–Petch relation and boundary strengthening Niels Hansen · Scripta Materialia | 4 Aug 2004 | 3,809 |
| 10 | Strain gradient plasticity: Theory and experiment Norman Andrew Fleck, Georg M. Müller, Michael Farries Ashby et al. · Acta Metallurgica et Materialia | Feb 1994 | 3,767 |
| 11 | Deformation twinning J. W. Christian, Subhash K Mahajan · Progress in Materials Science | 1995 | 3,596 |
| 12 | Theory of Sputtering. I. Sputtering Yield of Amorphous and Polycrystalline Targets Peter Sigmund · Physical Review | 10 Aug 1969 | 3,573 |
| 13 | Ultrahigh Strength and High Electrical Conductivity in Copper Lei Lu, Y.F. Shen, Xianhua Chen et al. · Science | 22 Mar 2004 | 3,389 |
| 14 | Physics and phenomenology of strain hardening: the FCC case U.F. Kocks, Heinrich Mecking · Progress in Materials Science | 28 Dec 2002 | 3,293 |
| 15 | Perspectives on Titanium Science and Technology D. Banerjee, J C Williams · Acta Materialia | 18 Jan 2013 | 3,051 |
| 16 | Using high-pressure torsion for metal processing: Fundamentals and applications Alexander P. Zhilyaev, Terence G. Langdon · Progress in Materials Science | 4 Jun 2008 | 3,011 |
| 17 | High tensile ductility in a nanostructured metal Yinmin Wang, Mingwei W. Chen, Fenghua Zhou et al. · Nature | 30 Oct 2002 | 2,962 |
| 18 | Dynamic and post-dynamic recrystallization under hot, cold and severe plastic deformation conditions Taku Sakai, Andrey N. Belyakov, Rustam O. Kaibyshev et al. · Progress in Materials Science | Oct 2013 | 2,801 |
| 19 | Kinetics of flow and strain-hardening Heinrich Mecking, U.F. Kocks · Acta Metallurgica | Nov 1981 | 2,761 |
| 20 | Dislocations and Plastic Flow in Crystals Alan Howard Cottrell, David L. Dexter · American Journal of Physics | Apr 1954 | 2,673 |
| 21 | Strengthening Materials by Engineering Coherent Internal Boundaries at the Nanoscale K. Lu, Lei Lu, S. Srinivasa Suresh · Science | 16 Apr 2009 | 2,543 |
| 22 | A review of dynamic recrystallization phenomena in metallic materials Ke Huang, Roland E. Logé · Materials & Design | 9 Sep 2016 | 2,433 |
| 23 | Imperfect Oriented Attachment: Dislocation Generation in Defect-Free Nanocrystals R. Lee Penn, Jillian F. Banfield · Science | 14 Aug 1998 | 2,428 |
| 24 | Automated identification and indexing of dislocations in crystal interfaces Alexander Stukowski, Vasily V. Bulatov, A. Arsenlis · Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering | 31 Oct 2012 | 2,387 |
| 25 | Current issues in recrystallization: a review Roger D. Doherty, Darcy A. Hughes, F. John Humphreys et al. · Materials Science and Engineering A | Nov 1997 | 2,338 |
| 26 | Orientation gradients and geometrically necessary dislocations in ultrafine grained dual-phase steels studied by 2D and 3D EBSD Marion Calcagnotto, Dirk Ponge, Eralp Demir et al. · Materials Science and Engineering A | 15 Jan 2010 | 2,330 |
| 27 | Sample Dimensions Influence Strength and Crystal Plasticity Michael D. Uchic, Dennis M. Dimiduk, J.N. Florando et al. · Science | 13 Aug 2004 | 2,328 |
| 28 | Mechanism-based strain gradient plasticity— I. Theory Huajian Gao, Y. Huang, William D. Nix et al. · Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids | Apr 1999 | 2,275 |
| 29 | Overview of constitutive laws, kinematics, homogenization and multiscale methods in crystal plasticity finite-element modeling: Theory, experiments, applications Franz Roters, Philip Eisenlohr, L. Hantcherli et al. · Acta Materialia | 12 Dec 2009 | 2,185 |
| 30 | Theory of Mechanical Damping Due to Dislocations A. V. Granato, K. Lücke · Journal of Applied Physics | Jun 1956 | 2,176 |
| 31 | A self-consistent anisotropic approach for the simulation of plastic deformation and texture development of polycrystals: Application to zirconium alloys Ricardo A. Lebensohn, C.N. Tomé · Acta Metallurgica et Materialia | Sep 1993 | 2,169 |
| 32 | Novel ultra-high straining process for bulk materials—development of the accumulative roll-bonding (ARB) process Yoshihiro Saito, Hiroshi Utsunomiya, Nobuhiro Tsuji et al. · Acta Materialia | 1999 | 2,163 |
| 33 | On the theory of normal and abnormal grain growth Mats Hillert · Acta Metallurgica | Mar 1965 | 2,142 |
| 34 | Revealing the Maximum Strength in Nanotwinned Copper Lei Lu, Xiaofu Chen, Xiaoxu Huang et al. · Science | 29 Jan 2009 | 2,127 |
| 35 | Materials processing by simple shear Vladimir M. Segal · Materials Science and Engineering A | Jul 1995 | 2,099 |
| 36 | Mechanical behavior and strengthening mechanisms in ultrafine grain precipitation-strengthened aluminum alloy Kaka Ma, Haiming Wen, Tao Hu et al. · Acta Materialia | 24 Oct 2013 | 2,069 |
| 37 | The structure of high-angle grain boundaries D. G. Brandon · Acta Metallurgica | Nov 1966 | 2,041 |
| 38 | Heterogeneous lamella structure unites ultrafine-grain strength with coarse-grain ductility Xiaolei Wu, Muxin Yang, Fuping Yuan et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 9 Nov 2015 | 2,035 |
| 39 | EMS - a software package for electron diffraction analysis and HREM image simulation in materials science PA Stadelmann · Ultramicroscopy | 1987 | 2,028 |
| 40 | Dislocation-mechanics-based constitutive relations for material dynamics calculations Frank J. Zerilli, Ronald William Armstrong · Journal of Applied Physics | Mar 1987 | 1,986 |
| 41 | Grain Boundaries in Metals David McLean, A. A. Maradudin · Physics Today | Jul 1958 | 1,936 |
| 42 | Slip, twinning, and fracture in hexagonal close-packed metals M.H. Yoo · Metallurgical Transactions A | Mar 1981 | 1,906 |
| 43 | Extreme grain refinement by severe plastic deformation: A wealth of challenging science Yu. Z. Estrin, Alexei Vinogradov · Acta Materialia | 18 Jan 2013 | 1,852 |
| 44 | The Continuum Theory of Lattice Defects John Douglas Eshelby · Solid state physics | 1956 | 1,824 |
| 45 | Inelastic constitutive relations for solids: An internal-variable theory and its application to metal plasticity JAMES R. RICE · Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids | Nov 1971 | 1,805 |
| 46 | Principle of equal-channel angular pressing for the processing of ultra-fine grained materials Yoshinori Iwahashi, Jing Tao Wang, Zenji Horita et al. · Scripta Materialia | Jul 1996 | 1,803 |
| 47 | Size-dependent elastic properties of nanosized structural elements Ronald Earle Miller, Vijay B. Shenoy · Nanotechnology | 17 Jul 2000 | 1,801 |
| 48 | Overview no. 42 Texture development and strain hardening in rate dependent polycrystals R.J. Asaro, Alan Needleman · Acta Metallurgica | Jun 1985 | 1,783 |
| 49 | Plasticity in small-sized metallic systems: Intrinsic versus extrinsic size effect Julia R. Greer, J. Th. M. De Hosson · Progress in Materials Science | 3 Feb 2011 | 1,775 |
| 50 | Revealing Extraordinary Intrinsic Tensile Plasticity in Gradient Nano-Grained Copper Tiehui Fang, Wenwen Li, N.R. Tao et al. · Science | 17 Feb 2011 | 1,737 |
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