Journal of Nanomaterials
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 380961, 5 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/380961
Research Article

Dislocation Nucleation and Pileup under a Wedge Contact at Nanoscale

Y. F. Gao1 and J. Lou2

1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
2Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Rice University, Houston, TX 77251, USA

Received 5 November 2007; Accepted 18 January 2008

Academic Editor: Junlan Wang

Copyright © 2008 Y. F. Gao and J. Lou. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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