Designing tensile ductility in metallic glasses

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Sarac, Baran ^a   Schroers, Jan ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS; METAL; METALLIC GLASS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMORPHOUS MEDIUM; CRACK PROPAGATION; DESIGN METHOD; DUCTILITY; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; METAL; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TENSILE STRESS;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; SHEAR STRESS; TENSILE DUCTILITY; TENSILE STRENGTH; X RAY DIFFRACTION; YOUNG MODULUS;

EID: 84886370903     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3158     Document Type: Article

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