Effect of precipitate shapes on fracture toughness in extruded Mg-Zn-Zr magnesium alloys

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 965-973

  Somekawa, Hidetoshi ^a   Singh, Alok ^a   Mukai, Toshiji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION TESTING; DEFORMATION; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; METAL EXTRUSION; PRECIPITATES; STRAIN; TENSILE TESTING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EXTRUDED MAGNESIUM ALLOYS; PLANE-STRAIN FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; PRECIPITATE SHAPES;

MAGNESIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 34247350714     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2007.0112     Document Type: Article

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