Work has been at the core of occupational therapy for the last seven and a half decades. The tenets of work, which include providing a way of making a living and giving meaning to one's existence, have remained consistent throughout occupational therapists' use of work in the treatment of physical disabilities during three eras: World Wars I and II, the era of industrial therapy, and the work-h...

The change in near-tip stress field in Small Scale Yielding (SSY) for cracks located at an interface between two materials with different plastic work hardening is investigated. The difference in hardening is termed hardening mismatch, and is quantified through the parameter n, which is the difference in hardening exponent between the two materials. For cracks in elastic-ideally plastic materia...

2014 Work hardening of fcc metals and diamond structure crystals is considered in a cell model. Depending on stacking fault energy and temperature dynamic recovery can occur by cross slip or climb. The remaining dislocations cause a rehardening stage IV of two different origins and in two temperature ranges before the other dynamic recovery mechanism terminates work hardening. J. Phys. France 5...

In this paper an overview is given about laser surface modification processes, which are developed especially with the aim of hardness improvement for an enhanced fatigue and wear behaviour. The processes can be divided into such with and without filler material and in solid-state and melting processes. Actual work on shock hardening, transformation hardening, remelting, alloying and cladding i...