The Mechanical Properties of Bulk Metallic Glasses

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Online Documents

• Effect of Aqueous Environment on Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior in a Zr-based Bulk Amorphous Metal
• A Comparison of the Mechanisms of Fatigue-Crack Propagation Behavior in a Zr-Based Bulk Amorphous Metal in Air and an Aqueous Chloride Solution

Researchers

• Christopher Gilbert
• Valeska Schroeder

• C. J. Gilbert, R. O. Ritchie, and W. L. Johnson, "Fracture Toughness and Fatigue-Crack Propagation in a Zr-Ti-Ni-Cu-Be Bulk Metallic Glass," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 71 (4), July 28, 1997, pp. 476-478.
• C. J. Gilbert, J. M. Lippmann, and R. O. Ritchie, "Fatigue of a Zr-Ti-Ni-Cu-Be Bulk Amorphous Metal: Stress/Life and Crack-Growth Behavior," Scripta  Materialia, vol. 38 (4), 1998, pp. 537-542.
• V. Schroeder, C. J. Gilbert, and R. O. Ritchie, "Comparison of the Corrosion Behavior of a Bulk Amorphous Metal, Zr41.2Ti13.8Cu12.5Ni10Be22.5, with its Crystallized Form," Scripta Materialia, vol. 38 (10), 1998, pp. 1481-1485.
• V. Schroeder, C. J. Gilbert, and R. O. Ritchie, “Effect of Aqueous Environment on Fatigue-Crack Propagation Behavior in a Zr-Based Bulk Amorphous Metal”, Scripta Materialia, vol. 49 (9), April 1999, pp. 1057-1061.
• C. J. Gilbert, J. W. Ager, III, V. Schroeder, J. P. Lloyd, J. R. Graham, and R. O. Ritchie,  "Light Emission during Fracture of a Zr-Ti-Ni-Cu-Be Bulk Metallic Glass", Applied Physics Letters, vol. 74 (25), June 21, 1999, pp. 3809-3811.
• C. J. Gilbert, V. Schroeder, and R. O. Ritchie, "Mechanisms for Fracture and Fatigue-Crack Propagation in a Bulk Metallic Glass," Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, vol. 30A (8), July 1999, pp. 1739-1753.
• C. J. Gilbert, J. W. Ager, III, V. Schroeder, and R. O. Ritchie, “Mechanism for Light Emission during Fracture of a Zr-Ti-Ni-Cu-Be Bulk Metallic Glass: Temperature Measurements in Air and Nitrogen”, in Bulk Metallic Glasses, A. Inoue, W. L. Johnson, and C. T. Liu, eds., MRS Symposium Proceedings, vol. 554, Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, PA, 1999.
• C. J. Gilbert, V. Schroeder, and R. O. Ritchie, “Fracture and Fatigue in a Zr-Based Bulk Metallic Glass”, in Bulk Metallic Glasses, A. Inoue, W. L. Johnson, and C. T. Liu, eds., MRS Symposium Proceedings, vol. 554, Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, PA, 1999.
• C. J. Gilbert, V. Schroeder, and R. O. Ritchie, “Fracture and Fatigue of Amorphous Metals”, in  Progress in Mechanical Behaviour of Materials – ICM-8, Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on the Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, F. Ellyin and J. W. Provan, eds., Pergamon Press, Oxford, U.K., Vol. I, 1999, pp. 14-18.
• V. Schroeder, C. J. Gilbert, and R. O. Ritchie,  “A Comparison of the Mechanisms of Fatigue-Crack Propagation Behavior in a Zr-Based Bulk Amorphous Metal in Air and an Aqueous Chloride Solution”, Materials Science and Engineering A, submitted March 1999.
• R. O. Ritchie, C. J. Gilbert, and V. Schroeder,  “Fracture and Fatigue Behavior in Advanced Materials: Bulk Metallics Glasses”, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Technology in Experimental Mechanics (ATEM’99), The Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan, vol. 1, 1999, pp. 9-16.