Investigations into stress corrosion cracking behaviour of AZ91D magnesium alloy in physiological environment

Procedia Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages 518-523

  Choudhary, Lokesh ^a   Szmerling, Jeremy ^a   Goldwasser, Robert ^a   Raman, R K Singh ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fractography; Magnesium; Physiological; Slow strain rate testing; Stress corrosion cracking

Indexed keywords

AIR; CORROSION; CRACKS; DEGRADATION; FRACTOGRAPHY; FRACTURE MECHANICS; MAGNESIUM; MAGNESIUM ALLOYS; METAL IMPLANTS; PHYSIOLOGY; RESIDUAL STRESSES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRAIN RATE; TENSILE STRENGTH; TENSILE TESTING;

AZ91D MAGNESIUM ALLOYS; BIODEGRADABLE MAGNESIUM ALLOYS; CORROSIVE ENVIRONMENT; MECHANICAL INTEGRITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL; PHYSIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT; SIMULATED BODY FLUIDS; SLOW STRAIN RATE TESTING;

STRESS CORROSION CRACKING;

EID: 80052945623     PISSN: 18777058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2011.04.087     Document Type: Conference Paper

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