Near-threshold fatigue crack growth in bulk metallic glass composites

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3611-3619

  Boopathy, Kombaiah ^a   Hofmann, Douglas C ^b,c   Johnson, William L ^b   Ramamurty, Upadrasta ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c LIQUIDMETAL TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK METALLIC GLASS; BULK METALLIC GLASS COMPOSITES; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CRACK BLUNTING; CRACK GROWTH; FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH; FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH BEHAVIOR; FATIGUE CRACK INITIATION; FATIGUE PERFORMANCE; IN-SITU; INTERDENDRITIC REGIONS; MICROMECHANISMS; STRUCTURAL MATERIALS; THRESHOLD FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH; THRESHOLD STRESS INTENSITY FACTOR RANGE; YIELD STRENGTH;

BUILDING MATERIALS; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); DENDRIMERS; DENDRITES (METALLOGRAPHY); DUCTILITY; FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; GLASS; METALLIC GLASS;

CRACKS;

EID: 77952647343     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2009.0439     Document Type: Article

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