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The Plaston Concept
This book presents the novel concept of plaston, which accounts for the high
ductility or large plastic deformation of emerging high-performance structural materials, including bulk nanostructured metals, hetero-nanostructured materials, metallic
glasses, intermetallics, and ceramics. The plaston concept was first proposed within
an intensive discussion and collaboration among members of the Elements Strategy
Initiative for Structural Materials (ESISM), a Japanese national project funded by
MEXT for the period of 2012–2021. This concept has been continuously discussed
in the annual international symposia on "fundamental issues of structural materials"
organized by ESISM and in symposia at the annual meeting of the Japan Institute
of Metals. The authors of the chapters in this book have played active roles in those
discussions.
The book consists of four parts. The first part is a single chapter and describes an
introduction to the plaston concept and strategy to manage both high strength and
large ductility in advanced structural materials, on the basis of unique mechanical
properties of bulk nanostructured metals.
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