Investigation of thermally activated deformation in amorphous PMMA and Zr-Cu-Al bulk metallic glasses with broadband nanoindentation creep

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1279-1290

  Puthoff, J B ^a   Jakes, J E ^a,b   Cao, H ^a   Stone, D S ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b FOREST PRODUCTS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION PARAMETERS; ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; BULK METALLIC GLASS; CONSTANT LOADS; DATA COLLECTIONS; DATA POINTS; DEFORMATION MECHANISMS; DEFORMATION RATES; HIGH DENSITIES; HYDROSTATIC COMPONENTS; INDENTATION CREEPS; METHYL METHACRYLATES; NANO-INDENTATION TESTS; TEST MATERIALS; THERMALLY ACTIVATED; THREE SYSTEMS; ZR-BASED BULK METALLIC GLASS;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; ESTERS; GLASS; LIQUID METALS; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; METALLIC GLASS; NANOINDENTATION; STRAIN RATE; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ZIRCONIUM;

CREEP;

EID: 63149135807     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2009.0145     Document Type: Article

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