Effects of annealing on the hardness and elastic modulus of a Cu36Zr48Al8Ag8 bulk metallic glass

Materials and Design

Volumn 47, Issue , 2013, Pages 706-710

  Gu, Ji ^a   Song, Min ^a   Ni, Song ^a   Guo, Shengfeng ^b   He, Yuehui ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; ISOTHERMAL ANNEALING; NANOCRYSTALS; NUCLEATION; SHEAR BANDS; ZIRCONIUM;

AS-CAST; BULK METALLIC GLASS; HARDNESS AND ELASTIC MODULUS; NANOINDENTATION TESTS; NUCLEATION RATIO;

HARDNESS;

EID: 84873869217     PISSN: 02613069     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2012.12.071     Document Type: Article

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