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SCIENCE
Volume 300, Issue 5617, Pages 310-311Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1081042
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Ductile metals and alloys undergo plastic yielding at room temperature, during which they exhibit work-hardening and the generation of surface instabilities that lead to necking and failure. We show that pure nanocrystalline copper behaves differently, displaying near-perfect elastoplastic behavior characterized by Newtonian flow and the absence of both work-hardening and neck formation. We observed this behavior in tensile tests on fully dense large-scale bulk nanocrystalline samples. The experimental results further our understanding of the unique mechanical properties of nanocrystalline materials and also provide a basis for commercial technologies for the plastic ( and superplastic) formation of such materials.
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