Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5014557 | Extreme Mechanics Letters | 2016 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
Penta-twinned metallic NWs have recently received much attention due to their excellent mechanical properties. However, their elasticity size effect remains not well understood due to the large discrepancy in the reported experimental and simulation results. This paper reports an experimental effort to address the discrepancy about the size-dependent Young's modulus of penta-twinned Ag NWs. Two independent experiments on the same NW, in-situ resonance test and tensile test in a scanning electron microscope, were used to measure the Young's moduli. The cross-sectional shape of the Ag NWs was found to transit from pentagon to circle with decreasing NW diameter, which can modify the Young's modulus as much as 8% (for resonance test) and 19% (for tensile test) for the tested diameter range. This work confirmed that the Young's modulus of penta-twinned Ag NWs increases with decreasing NW diameter.
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Authors
Tzu-Hsuan Chang, Guangming Cheng, Chengjun Li, Yong Zhu,