Enhanced fatigue endurance of metallic glasses through a staircase-like fracture mechanism

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 46, 2013, Pages 18419-18424

  Gludovatz, Bernd ^a   Demetriou, Marios D ^b   Floyd, Michael ^b   Hohenwarter, Anton ^c   Johnson, William L ^b   Ritchie, Robert O ^a,d  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^d No 1760   (United States)

Author keywords

Bulk amorphous alloy; Damage tolerance; Fatigue life

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; CRYSTALLIN; GLASS; PALLADIUM;

ARTICLE; BULK METALLIC GLASSES; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORROSION; ENDURANCE; FATIGUE; LIFE STRESS; MICROSCOPE; PHYSICAL RESISTANCE; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SHEAR STRESS; SPECTACLES; STRESS FRACTURE; TENSILE STRENGTH;

BULK AMORPHOUS ALLOY; DAMAGE TOLERANCE; FATIGUE LIFE;

ENGINEERING; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GLASS; MATERIALS TESTING; METALS, HEAVY;

EID: 84887479466     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1317715110     Document Type: Article

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