... byconventionalstrengtheningfromloadtransfer,bysynthesizing microstructures with nanocrystalline matrices, incorporating small sized reinforcing inclusions, or a combinationofboth(Lloyd,1994;Nan and Clarke,1996;Sekine and Chent,1995) Grain boundaries(gb’s)createstrongbarrierstodislocationsprovidinghigherbaselinematrix ... dislocations produce internal stresses in theirvicinity,butatlargerscales(meso and above),these are canceled in the process of averaging out, since SSDs by definition are randomly distributed Anothertypeofdislocationsarisesfromthenecessitytoaccommodatelocal ... in abidtounderstandthelocalmicroscopicdetailsthatarisearoundtheinclusionsthat are embedded within large grains In section 2.4, we take a step further and model polycrystalline MMCs that include both, grain and inclusion size‐effects...