Training high-strength aluminum alloys to withstand fatigue

The fatigue performance of high strength aluminum alloys is notoriously poor, leading to design limitations for transportation structures. Here the authors design microstructures to exploit the mechanical energy of fatigue to dynamically heal the microstructural weak points and improve the high cycl...

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Main Authors: Qi Zhang, Yuman Zhu, Xiang Gao, Yuxiang Wu, Christopher Hutchinson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19071-7