It is a challenge in practice to cost-effectively fabricate copper matrix composites having high
mechanical properties and outstanding electrical conductivity for electric power applications …

Hardness, elastic modulus, yield strength, work hardening exponent, and residual stress
within shot-peened layer of nickel-based single crystal superalloy DD6 were experimentally …

Microstructure-scale interactions involving crystallographic texture (orientation and
disorientation distributions), distributions of grain shape and size, nearest neighbor …

Abstract Fatigue Indicator Parameters (FIPs) based on the cyclic plastic strain are used as
surrogate measures of the driving force for fatigue crack formation. For a given …

Deformation processed wires are used in the fields which demand the combination of
contradictory properties such as mechanical strength and electrical conductivity. For the last …

Cu/Nb multilayer composites with minimum individual layer thicknesses of≈ 2.8 μm are
achieved by accumulative roll bonding (ARB). The microstructural evolution and mechanical …

Abstract Fatigue Indicator Parameters (FIPs) serve as surrogate measures of the driving
force to form and grow transgranular fatigue cracks in metals and alloys. FIPs are volume …

It is of significance, but still remains a key challenge, to realize simultaneously high strength,
high conductivity and excellent thermal stability in Cu-based materials, as these desirable …

Cu-Nb microcomposite wires drawn to different strain values were studied by means of
scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. The Cu and Nb near …

Eurofer97 steel, a candidate structural material for future fusion reactors, was examined
following 1.9 MeV proton-irradiation up to 0.91 (5) dpa at 450∘ C with and without a prior …