Borchers, C.; Arlt, J.; Nowak, C.; Gärtner, F.; Hammerschmidt, M.; Kreye, H.; Volkert, C.; Kirchheim, R.: Influence of element distribution on mechanical properties in the bonding zone of explosively welded steels. Scripta Materialia 199, 113860 (2021)
Kresse, T.; Borchers, C.; Kirchheim, R.: Vacancy-carbon complexes in bcc iron: Correlation between carbon content, vacancy concentration and diffusion coefficient. Scripta Materialia 69 (9), pp. 690 - 693 (2013)
Li, Y.; Choi, P.-P.; Goto, S.; Borchers, C.; Raabe, D.; Kirchheim, R.: Atomic scale investigation of redistribution of alloying elements in pearlitic steel wires upon cold-drawing and annealing. Ultramicroscopy 132, pp. 233 - 238 (2013)
Chen, Y. Z.; Herz, A.; Li, Y. J.; Borchers, C.; Choi, P.; Raabe, D.; Kirchheim, R.: Nanocrystalline Fe–C alloys produced by ball milling of iron and graphite. Acta Materialia 61 (9), pp. 3172 - 3185 (2013)
Herbig, M.; Li, Y.; Morsdorf, L.; Goto, S.; Choi, P.-P.; Kirchheim, R.; Raabe, D.: Recent Advances in Understanding the Structures and Properties of Nanomaterials. Gordon Research Conference on Structural Nanomaterials, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (2014)
International researcher team presents a novel microstructure design strategy for lean medium-manganese steels with optimized properties in the journal Science
About 90% of all mechanical service failures are caused by fatigue. Avoiding fatigue failure requires addressing the wide knowledge gap regarding the micromechanical processes governing damage under cyclic loading, which may be fundamentally different from that under static loading. This is particularly true for deformation-induced martensitic…
Conventional alloy development methodologies which specify a single base element and several alloying elements have been unable to introduce new alloys at an acceptable rate for the increasingly specialised application requirements of modern technologies. An alternative alloy development strategy searches the previously unexplored central regions…
The full potential of energy materials can only be exploited if the interplay between mechanics and chemistry at the interfaces is well known. This leads to more sustainable and efficient energy solutions.
This project aims to correlate the localised electrical properties of ceramic materials and the defects present within their microstructure. A systematic approach has been developed to create crack-free deformation in oxides through nanoindentation, while the localised defects are probed in-situ SEM to study the electronic properties. A coupling…