Approaching the ideal elastic limit of metallic glasses

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Tian, Lin ^a   Cheng, Yong Qiang ^b   Shan, Zhi Wei ^a   Li, Ju ^a,c   Wang, Cheng Cai ^a   Han, Xiao Dong ^d   Sun, Jun ^a   Ma, Evan ^a,b  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^d BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS;

ARTICLE; BULK DENSITY; ELASTICITY; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TENSILE STRENGTH; TENSION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84858708939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1619     Document Type: Article

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