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 language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | K751-K7511 |
Journal | Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings |
Volume | 643 |
State | Published - 2001 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Materials Science(all)
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Mechanics of Materials
- Mechanical Engineering