Thanks to their capabilities in capturing size effects, strain gradient plasticity theories have received a strong scientific interest in the last two decades. However, despite the great scientific effort on these theories, ...

The objective of this study was to develop a thermo-mechanical strategy to create a radial elasticity gradient in a β metastable Ti-Nb-Zr alloy, and to characterize it in terms of microstructural and mechanical properties. ...

In this work, ductility limits of metallic materials, associated with the occurrence of strain localization, are predicted using the GTN damage model coupled with bifurcation theory. The resulting approach is implemented ...