Fractography and its role in fracture interpretation

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1307-1316

  Thompson, A W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractography; Fracture processes; Titanium aluminide alloys

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE MECHANICS; INTERMETALLICS; TITANIUM ALLOYS;

CLEAVAGE FRACTURE; TITANIUM ALUMINIDE;

FRACTOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030287913     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.1996.tb00168.x     Document Type: Article

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