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Metallic glasses

Must shear bands be hot?

Nature Materials volume 5, pages 7–8 (2006)Cite this article

Knowing the temperature rise in shear bands with high spatial and temporal resolution is important for the development of materials with improved mechanical properties.

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Figure 1: Fracture surface of a PdAuSi metallic glass ribbon fractured in tension along a shear band.
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