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Metals, Volume 2, Issue 4

2012 December - 8 articles

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Articles (8)

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,432 Views
11 Pages

Structural Irreversibility and Enhanced Brittleness under Fatigue in Zr-Based Amorphous Solids

  • Peng Tong,
  • Despina Louca,
  • Gongyao Wang,
  • Peter K. Liaw and ,
  • Yoshihiko Yokoyama,
  • Anna Llobet,
  • Hiroshi Kawaji,
  • Yiming Qiu and
  • Yunfeng Shi
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

19 December 2012

The effect of fatigue on ZrCuAl amorphous metals induced by mechanical cyclic loading is investigated using inelastic neutron scattering and the pair density function analysis of neutron diffraction data. With cooling, the local atomic structure unde...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Amorphous Alloys)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,935 Views
21 Pages

Applicability of Solid Solution Heat Treatments to Aluminum Foams

  • Jaime Lázaro,
  • Eusebio Solórzano,
  • Javier Escudero,
  • Jose Antonio De Saja and
  • Miguel Rodríguez-Pérez

14 December 2012

Present research work evaluates the influence of both density and size on the treatability of Aluminum-based (6000 series) foam-parts subjected to a typical solid solution heat treatment (water quenching). The results are compared with those obtained...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
10,689 Views
20 Pages

4 December 2012

We present and compare three elastoplastic models currently used for deformation of metallic glasses, namely, a von Mises model, a modified von Mises model with hydrostatic stress effect included, and a Drucker-Prager model. The constitutive models a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Amorphous Alloys)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,058 Views
10 Pages

3 December 2012

Environmental pollution due to discharges of heavy metal containing sludge from textile industries is a common nuisance in Bangladesh, where no treatment of sludge is carried out before final disposals. Energy Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence (EDXRF) wa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,953 Views
9 Pages

Nanometer-Scale Heterogeneities of the Structure of Zirconium-Based Bulk Metallic Glasses

  • Alexander S. Bakai,
  • Evgenij V. Sadanov,
  • Vjacheslav A. Ksenofontov,
  • Sergej A. Bakai and ,
  • Julia A. Gordienko and
  • Igor M. Mikhailovskij
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

15 November 2012

Structure of amorphous alloys ZrTiCuNiBe and ZrTiCuNiAl is studied by means of low-field ion and combined field-emission microscopy. In both alloys the structural heterogeneities of nanometer-scale are clearly revealed. The surface layers formed by f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Amorphous Alloys)
  • Article
  • Open Access
128 Citations
28,973 Views
28 Pages

Corrosion Protection of Electrically Conductive Surfaces

  • Jian Song,
  • Liangliang Wang,
  • Andre Zibart and
  • Christian Koch

15 November 2012

The basic function of the electrically conductive surface of electrical contacts is electrical conduction. The electrical conductivity of contact materials can be largely reduced by corrosion and in order to avoid corrosion, protective coatings must...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
11,002 Views
30 Pages

13 November 2012

This paper summarizes and reviews the findings of our research on AM60B magnesium alloy conducted in past 8 years. It essentially covers three categories: microstructural study, environmental effect, and fatigue crack growth rate of AM60B. The experi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Magnesium Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
11,758 Views
12 Pages

Characterization of Steel Foams for Structural Components

  • Brooks H. Smith,
  • Stefan Szyniszewski,
  • Jerome F. Hajjar,
  • Benjamin W. Schafer and
  • Sanjay R. Arwade

1 November 2012

Experimentally measured mechanical properties of hollow sphere steel foam are the subject of this paper. The characterization of the hollow sphere foam encompasses compressive yield stress and densification strain, compressive plastic Poisson’s ratio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 7th International Conference on Porous Metals and Metallic Foams (MetFoam 2011))
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