Results of copper-silver rail materials tests

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 116-119

  Castro, Zachira ^a   Persad, Chadee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Copper silver alloy; Pulse test; Rail materials

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION; MICROSTRUCTURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRAIN RATE;

COPPER-SILVER ALLOYS; PULSE TESTS; RAIL MATERIALS;

COPPER ALLOYS;

EID: 33846256205     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.887438     Document Type: Article

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