Experimental characterization of shear transformation zones for plastic flow of bulk metallic glasses

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 39, 2008, Pages 14769-14772

  Pan, D ^a   Inoue, A ^a   Sakurai, T ^a   Chen, M W ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cooperative shearing model; Mechanical property; Nanoindentation; Shear band; Strain rate sensitivity

Indexed keywords

GLASS; METAL; PLASTIC;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHEAR STRESS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 55549100299     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0806051105     Document Type: Article

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