Fracture toughness and fracture modes of aerospace aluminum-lithium alloys

Aluminum-Lithium Alloys: Processing, Properties, and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 415-455

  Lynch, S P ^a   Wanhill, R J H ^b   Byrnes, R T ^a   Bray, G H ^c  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL AEROSPACE LABORATORY NLR   (Netherlands)

^c ALCOA TECHNICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Al li alloys; Fracture modes; Fracture toughness data; Grain boundary segregation; Microstructure; Slip mode

Indexed keywords

AGE HARDENING; AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURE; AIRFRAMES; ALLOYING ELEMENTS; ALUMINUM ALLOYS; BINARY ALLOYS; COPPER ALLOYS; FRACTURE TESTING; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; HIGH STRENGTH ALLOYS; MAGNESIUM ALLOYS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MILITARY AIRCRAFT; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); STRAIN; TEXTURES; TOPOGRAPHY; ZINC ALLOYS;

AEROSPACE STRUCTURE; AL-LI ALLOYS; FRACTURE MODE; GRAIN BOUNDARY PRECIPITATE; GRAIN BOUNDARY SEGREGATION; MICROSTRUCTURAL FEATURES; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SLIP-MODE;

LITHIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 84902564383     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-401698-9.00013-6     Document Type: Chapter

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