Abstract
A dedicated fatigue pre-cracking method, performed successively under mode II and mode I, has been set up to initiate and propagate a crack close to the notch plane, which is particularly difficult to achieve using pure mode I loading on some ultra pure bulk metallic glasses, free from oxygen contamination. This method, was applied to a pure Zr55Cu30Al10Ni5 (at.%) amorphous alloy, and allowed successful pre-cracking and reliable measurement of the apparent mode I fracture toughness.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 58-61 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Scripta Materialia |
| Volume | 141 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2017 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Bulk metallic glasses
- Fracture
- Protocol
- Toughness