Plastic instabilities such as diffuse or localized necking may occur during sheet metal forming processes, thus limiting sheet metal formability, which is detrimental to industry. The formability of sheet metals is usually ...

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. ...