Transgranular Cracking in a Liquid Zn Embrittled High Strength Steel

Diptak Bhattacharya1, Lawrence Cho2, Ellen Van der Aa3

  • 1Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Advanced Steel Processing and Product Research Center, Colorado School of Mines, 1500 Illinois Street, Golden, CO 80401, USA.

Scripta Materialia
|March 14, 2020
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