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Open AccessGrain refinement in titanium prevents low temperature oxygen embrittlement
Interstitial oxygen embrittles titanium, particularly at cryogenic temperatures, which necessitates a stringent control of oxygen content in fabricating titanium and its alloys. Here, we propose a structural s...
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Open AccessCleavages along {110} in bcc iron emit dislocations from the curved crack fronts
Body-centered-cubic (bcc) transition metals, such as \(\alpha \) α -Fe and W...
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Open AccessAtomistic weak interaction criterion for the specificity of liquid metal embrittlement
Liquid metal embrittlement (LME) occurs in some solid–liquid metal elements’ couples (e.g., Fe-Zn and Al-Ga), called specificity. Although some material parameters like solubility and bonding energy were sugge...
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Open AccessHydrogen-accelerated spontaneous microcracking in high-strength aluminium alloys
Aluminium alloys are re-evaluated as most feasible way to satisfy the industrial needs of light-weight structural materials. However, unlike conventional structural metals such as iron and titanium, aluminium ...