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Conchoidal fracture
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Intrinsic fracture behavior of Mg-Y alloys
William Curtin, Eleanor Yi Kei Mak
Pure magnesium (Mg) is an attractive metal for structural applications due to its low density, but also has low ductility and low fracture toughness. Dilute alloying of Mg with rare earth elements in small amounts improves the ductility, but the effects of ...
2020A decohesion pathway for hydrogen embrittlement in nickel: Mechanism and quantitative prediction
William Curtin, Xiaoqing Zhou, Ali Tehranchi
Hydrogen embrittlement (HE) is a ubiquitous and catastrophic mode of fracture in metals. Here, embrittlement is considered as an intrinsic ductile-brittle transition at the crack tip, where H at the crack tip can reduce the stress intensity K-Ic for cleava ...
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020Simulation of silicon KOH and dry etching methods for micromould fabrication
The purpose of this project is to investigate the suitability of wet etching methods such as KOH etching for silicon micromoulds fabrication. Those moulds are intended for preceramic polymer (PCP) casting and specific requirements regarding the profile of ...
2020Atomistic study of hydrogen embrittlement of grain boundaries in nickel: I. Fracture
Hydrogen ingress into a metal is a persistent source of embrittlement. Fracture surfaces are often intergranular, suggesting favorable cleave crack growth along grain boundaries (GBs) as one driver for embrittlement. Here, atomistic simulations are used to ...
Elsevier2017Crack tip blunting and cleavage under dynamic conditions
William Curtin, Varun Parameswaran Rajan
In structural materials with both brittle and ductile phases, cracks often initiate within the brittle phase and propagate dynamically towards the ductile phase. The macroscale, quasistatic toughness of the material thus depends on the outcome of this micr ...
Elsevier2016Spatially resolved Raman spectroscopy on indium-catalyzed core-shell germanium nanowires: size effects
Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Martin Heiss, Tonko Garma
The structure of indium-catalyzed germanium nanowires is investigated by atomic force microscopy, scanning confocal Raman spectroscopy and transmission electron microscopy. The nanowires are formed by a crystalline core and an amorphous shell. We find that ...
Institute of Physics2010Cleavage Fracture of Brittle Semiconductors from the Nanometer to the Centimeter Scale
Christophe Ballif, Johann Michler, Jean-Marc Breguet, Ayat Karimi, Cédric Pouvreau
The objective of this paper is to present the fundamental phenomena occurring during the scribing and subsequent fracturing process usually performed when preparing surfaces of brittle semiconductors. In the first part, an overview of nano-scratching exper ...
2005Fracture in nanolamellar materials: continuum and atomistic models with application to titanium aluminides
Molecular statics simulations of crack growth in fully lamellar Ti-Al are performed to elucidate the role of lamellar structure in determining deformation and fracture toughness in nanoscale structures. The lamellar boundaries are highly effective in inhib ...
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