Effect of precipitate volume fraction on fracture toughness of extruded Mg-Zn alloys

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1128-1135

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

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; PRECIPITATES; VOLUME FRACTION;

DUCTILE FRACTURE MODEL ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATE VOLUME FRACTION; VOID FORMATION;

MAGNESIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 42949103504     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2008.0132     Document Type: Article

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