Plasticity at the micron scale

Indentation size effects in crystalline materials: A law for strain gradient plasticity

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The deformation of plastically non-homogeneous materials

Michael F. Ashby · Philosophical magazine · 1970 · 4.2K citations

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Strain gradient plasticity: Theory and experiment

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Elastic materials with couple-stresses

R. A. Toupin · Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis · 1962 · 2.9K citations · Full text

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Mechanism-based strain gradient plasticity— I. Theory

Huajian Gao, Y. Huang, William D. Nix et al. · Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids · 1999 · 2.2K citations

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