Special issue: Bridging of material length scales

International Journal of Materials and Structural Integrity 4(2-4) 2010

• Two-scale modelling of effects of microstructure and thermomechanical properties on dynamic performance of an aluminium alloy
• Lengthscale-dependent modelling of ductile failure in metallic microstructures
• The effect of atomic force microscope probe size on indentation tests simulated using realistic surface forces
• Approach on thermoelectricity reliability of board-level backplane based on the orthogonal experiment design
• On the relationship of microstructure properties of asphalt mixtures to their constitutive behaviour
• On the differences of dynamic localisations between different types of metals
• Dynamic properties analysis and test of SMT printed circuit board assembly
• Dislocation-based model for predicting size-scale effects on the micro and nano indentation hardness of metallic materials
• Modelling size effects in micro/nano-systems by including interfacial effects in a gradient plasticity framework
• Synthesis and characterisation of sodium trititanate whisker surface Cd(II) ion-imprinted polymer and selective solid-phase extraction of cadmium