Ideal Strength

  1. Mechanics of Ultra-Strength Materials,
    Ting Zhu, Ju Li, Shigenobu Ogata and Sidney Yip, MRS Bulletin 34 (March 2009) 167-172.

  2. Hydrostatic compression and high-pressure elastic constants of coesite silica,
    Hajime Kimizuka, Shigenobu Ogata and Ju Li, Journal of Applied Physics 103 (2008) 053506.

  3. Ab initio calculation of ideal strength and phonon instability of graphene in tension,
    Fang Liu, Pingbing Ming and Ju Li, Physical Review B 76 (2007) 064120.

  4. Complete set of elastic constants of alpha-quartz at high pressure: A first-principles study,
    Hajime Kimizuka, Shigenobu Ogata, Ju Li and Yoji Shibutani, Physical Review B 75 (2007) 054109.

  5. Ab initio study of the surface properties and ideal strength of (100) silicon thin films,
    Yoshitaka Umeno, Akihiro Kushima, Takayuki Kitamura, Peter Gumbsch and Ju Li, Physical Review B 72 (2005) 165431.

  6. Near-surface lattice instability in 2D fiber and half-space,
    Sergey V. Dmitriev, Takayuki Kitamura, Ju Li, Yoshitaka Umeno, Kisaragi Yashiro and Nobuhiro Yoshikawa, Acta Materialia 53 (2005) 1215-1224.

  7. Breaking atomic bonds through vibrational mode localization,
    Sergey V. Dmitriev, Ju Li, Nobuhiro Yoshikawa, Yoshihisa Tanaka, Yutaka Kagawa, Takayuki Kitamura and Sidney Yip, Defect and Diffusion Forum 233-234 (2004) 49-60.

  8. Theoretical strength of 2D hexagonal crystals: application to bubble raft indentation,
    Sergey V. Dmitriev, Ju Li, Nobuhiro Yoshikawa and Yoji Shibutani, Philosophical Magazine 85 (2005) 2177-2195.

  9. Ideal shear strain of metals and ceramics,
    Shigenobu Ogata, Ju Li, Naoto Hirosaki, Yoji Shibutani and Sidney Yip, Physical Review B 70 (2004) 104104. (Shearability/)

  10. Ab initio study of ideal shear strength,
    Shigenobu Ogata, Ju Li, Yoji Shibutani and Sidney Yip, IUTAM Symposium on Mesoscopic Dynamics of Fracture Process and Materials Strength, eds. H. Kitagawa and Y. Shibutani, Solid Mechanics and Its Applications 115 (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2004). ISBN: 1402020376.

  11. Ideal pure shear strength of aluminum and copper,
    Shigenobu Ogata, Ju Li and Sidney Yip, Science 298 (2002) 807-11.

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  12. Atomistic Measures of Materials Strength,
    Ju Li and Sidney Yip, Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences 3 (2002) 219-227.

  13. Atomistic simulation of matter under stress: crossover from hard to soft materials,
    Antonino Romano, Ju Li and Sidney Yip, Physica A 304 (2002) 11-22.

  14. Mechanistic aspects and atomic-level consequences of elastic instabilities in homogeneous crystals,
    Sidney Yip, Ju Li, Meijie Tang and Jinghan Wang, Materials Science and Engineering A 317 (2001) 236-240.

  15. Unifying two criteria of Born: elastic instability and melting of homogeneous crystals,
    Jinghan Wang, Ju Li, Sidney Yip, Simon Phillpot and Dieter Wolf, Physica A 240, 396-403 (1997).

  16. Mechanical instabilities of homogeneous crystals,
    Jinghan Wang, Ju Li, Sidney Yip, Simon Phillpot and Dieter Wolf, Physical Review B 52, 12627-35 (1995).

  17. Homogeneous deformation and instabilities,
    Ju Li and Sidney Yip, to be submitted.