Phase transitions in quasicrystals induced by friction and wear

Chuang Dong, Jinsong Wu, Liming Zhang, Jean Marie Dubois, Pierre Brunet, Qinggang Zhou, Dehe Wang, Huichen Zhang

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Abstract

Certain ductility may occur during friction tests on quasicrystalline materials that are intrinsically brittle. This is, at least in part, due to a solid-state phase transition from the icosahedral to a BCC phase. The present paper first summarizes phase transition features of quasicrystals and then examines the microstructural mechanism of scratch indentation on an icosahedral Al-Cu-Fe sample. The last part of this paper is devoted to a discussion of the correlation of this phase with respect to quasicrystals.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)K751-K7511
JournalMaterials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings
Volume643
StatePublished - 2001

Funding

The present work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under the grant No. 59525103 and by the French-Chinese Advanced Research Program on Materials (PRA MX 96/02). We thank J. von Stebut for the provision of scratch-test facility. We are most grateful to K.H. Kuo for his constant interest in this work.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Materials Science
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Mechanical Engineering

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