Ph.D. position: Neighbouring grain effects in metals with strong anisotropy KU Leuven
The fundamental definition of stress is the force per unit area applied to the material. The practical implementation of this definition entails a scale dependence, since the area onto which the load is applied is considered. When a load is exerted on a metallic material the global macroscopic stress can be significantly different from the local microscopic stress, for example in a single grain. For metallic materials with strong anisotropy, ...