Liquation cracking and its effects in aluminum alloy armatures

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 33, Issue 1 PART 1, 1997, Pages 419-425

  Yeoh, A ^a   Prabhu, G ^a   Persad, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; ALUMINUM METALLOGRAPHY; CRACK INITIATION; FRACTURE; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; HIGH SPEED PHOTOGRAPHY; MATERIALS TESTING; PROJECTILES;

ALUMINUM ALLOY ARMATURES; LIQUATION CRACKING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHERS;

EID: 0030649113     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.560049     Document Type: Article

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