Ideal pure shear strength of aluminum and copper

Shigenobu Ogata1, Ju Li, Sidney Yip

  • 1Department of Nuclear Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|October 26, 2002
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