Dynamic plasticity and failure of high-purity alumina under shock loading

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 614-618

  Chen, M W ^a,b   McCauley, J W ^c   Dandekar, D P ^c   Bourne, N K ^d  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; PLASTICITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TWINNING;

HUGONIOT ELASTIC LIMIT (HEL); INELASTIC RESPONSE; SHOCK LOADING; SHOCK LOADING EXPERIMENTS;

ALUMINA;

EID: 33746619728     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1689     Document Type: Article

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