Tensile and fatigue behaviour of wrought magnesium alloys AZ31 and AZ61

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 812-821

  Chamos, A N ^a   Pantelakis, Sp G ^a   Haidemenopoulos, G N ^b   Kamoutsi, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Fracture mode; Tension; Texture; Twinning

Indexed keywords

CRACKS; FRACTURE; MAGNESIUM; MAGNESIUM ALLOYS; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; STRESS CORROSION CRACKING;

ANGULAR SPREADS; FATIGUE; FATIGUE BEHAVIOURS; FRACTURE MODE; FRACTURE MODES; FRACTURE SURFACES; HARDENING RESPONSES; INTERGRANULAR; LONGITUDINAL; LONGITUDINAL DIRECTIONS; LOW TO HIGHS; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOURS; MONOTONIC AND CYCLIC LOADINGS; ROLLING DIRECTIONS; SMOOTH TRANSITIONS; TENSILE; TENSILE BEHAVIOURS; TENSION; TRANSGRANULAR CRACKS; WROUGHT MAGNESIUM ALLOYS; YIELD STRENGTHS;

MAGNESIUM PRINTING PLATES;

EID: 54849418783     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: 14602695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.2008.01267.x     Document Type: Article

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