The brittle fracture of polycrystalline zinc

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 463, Issue 2085, 2007, Pages 2129-2151

  Hughes, G M ^a   Smith, G E ^b   Flewitt, P E J ^a   Crocker, A G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brittle fracture; Deformation twinning; Focused ion beam microscopy and fractography; Geometrical models; Model validation; Polycrystalline zinc

Indexed keywords

EID: 36348993799     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2007.1866     Document Type: Article

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