A metallographic and fractographic study of the origin of cleavage fracture in mild steel

Materials Characterization

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 27-33

  Li, Daoming ^a   Yao, Mei ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); CRACK PROPAGATION; FRACTOGRAPHY; FRACTURE; METALLOGRAPHY; MICROSTRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEATION; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TENSILE TESTING;

CLEAVAGE FRACTURE; FRACTURE MICROMECHANISM; MILD STEEL;

STEEL;

EID: 0029757045     PISSN: 10445803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1044-5803(95)00236-7     Document Type: Article

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