Embrittlement of metal by solute segregation-induced amorphization

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 15, 2010, Pages

  Chen, Hsiu Pin ^a   Kalia, Rajiv K ^a   Kaxiras, Efthimios ^b   Lu, Gang ^c   Nakano, Aiichiro ^a   Nomura, Ken Ichi ^a   Van Duin, Adri C T ^d   Vashishta, Priya ^a   Yuan, Zaoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE BEHAVIOR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PROPAGATION PATHS; SOLUTE SEGREGATION; STRENGTH REDUCTION; SULFUR SEGREGATION;

AMORPHIZATION; CRACK TIPS; EMBRITTLEMENT; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SHEAR STRENGTH; SULFUR;

TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 77951086662     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.155502     Document Type: Article

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