A predictive mechanism for dynamic strain ageing in aluminium-magnesium alloys

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 875-880

  Curtin, William A ^a   Olmsted, David L ^a,c   Hector, Louis G ^b  

^a Brown University   (United States)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); MONTE CARLO METHODS; MOTION COMPENSATION; QUANTUM THEORY; STRAIN CONTROL;

DISLOCATION CORE; DYNAMIC STRAIN AGEING (DSA); EXPERIMENTAL STRAIN-RATE; NEGATIVE STRAIN-RATE SENSITIVITY (NSRS);

ALUMINUM ALLOYS;

EID: 33750438771     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1765     Document Type: Article

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