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51
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28399
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9711
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2339

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  • 1999 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For advancements in the theory of strength, kinetics of plasticity of metals, and texture analysis.

Overview

U.F. Kocks is affiliated with the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States. Their work focuses on the fields of materials science and engineering with specific attention to the behavior of metals under stress.

The scientist's research includes advancing the theory of strength, kinetics of plasticity of metals, and texture analysis. These areas contribute to understanding how metals deform and react at the microstructural level during mechanical processes.

Kocks has been recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering since 1999, with the citation highlighting contributions to strength theory, plasticity kinetics, and texture analysis in metals.

Best Publications

  • Physics and phenomenology of strain hardening: the FCC case

    U.F. Kocks;H. Mecking

  • Kinetics of flow and strain-hardening☆

    H. Mecking;U.F. Kocks

  • Texture and Anisotropy: Preferred Orientations in Polycrystals and their Effect on Materials Properties

    Ulrich Fred Kocks;Carlos Norberto Tomé;Hans-Rudolf Wenk

  • Laws for Work-Hardening and Low-Temperature Creep

    U. F. Kocks

  • Thermodynamics and kinetics of slip

    Ulrich Fred Kocks;Ali Suphi Argon;Michael Farries Ashby

  • A constitutive description of the deformation of copper based on the use of the mechanical threshold stress as an internal state variable

    P.S. Follansbee;U.F. Kocks

  • The relation between polycrystal deformation and single-crystal deformation

    U. F. Kocks

  • A statistical theory of flow stress and work-hardening

    U. F. Kocks

  • The relation between macroscopic and microscopic strain hardening in F.C.C. polycrystals

    C. Tome;G.R. Canova;U.F. Kocks;N. Christodoulou

  • New observations on the mechanisms of dynamic strain aging and of jerky flow

    R.A. Mulford;U.F. Kocks

  • A model for texture development dominated by deformation twinning: Application to zirconium alloys

    C.N. Tomé;R.A. Lebensohn;U.F. Kocks

  • The effect of dislocation self-interaction on the Orowan stress

    D. J. Bacon;U. F. Kocks;R. O. Scattergood

  • OPERATIONAL TEXTURE ANALYSIS

    J.S. Kallend;U.F. Kocks;A.D. Rollett;H.-R. Wenk

  • Theory of torsion texture development

    G.R. Canova;U.F. Kocks;J.J. Jonas

  • Slip geometry in partially constrained deformation

    U.F Kocks;H Chandra

  • The strain dependence of static and dynamic strain-aging

    A. Van Den Beukel;U.F. Kocks

  • Dislocation kinetics at high strain rates

    G. Regazzoni;U.F. Kocks;P.S. Follansbee

  • Kinetics of solution hardening

    U. F. Kocks

  • Application of polycrystal plasticity to sheet forming

    A.J. Beaudoin;P.R. Dawson;K.K. Mathur;U.F. Kocks

  • A hybrid finite element formulation for polycrystal plasticity with consideration of macrostructural and microstructural linking

    A.J. Beaudoin;P.R. Dawson;K.K. Mathur;U.F. Kocks

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony D. Rollett
Anthony D. Rollett Carnegie Mellon University
J.D. Embury
J.D. Embury McMaster University
Armand Joseph Beaudoin
Armand Joseph Beaudoin Cornell University
Paul R. Dawson
Paul R. Dawson Cornell University
Hans-Rudolf Wenk
Hans-Rudolf Wenk University of California, Berkeley
Carlos N. Tomé
Carlos N. Tomé Los Alamos National Laboratory
Warren J. Poole
Warren J. Poole University of British Columbia
Roger D. Doherty
Roger D. Doherty Drexel University
John J. Jonas
John J. Jonas McGill University
Alain Molinari
Alain Molinari University of Lorraine

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