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SUBMITTER: Zhang Q
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7566492 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhang Qi Q Zhu Yuman Y Gao Xiang X Wu Yuxiang Y Hutchinson Christopher C
Nature communications 20201015 1
The fatigue performance of high strength aluminum alloys used in planes, trains, trucks and automobiles is notoriously poor. Engineers must design around this important limitation to use Al alloys for light-weighting of transportation structures. An alternative concept for microstructure design for improved fatigue strength is demonstrated in this work. Microstructures are designed to exploit the mechanical energy imparted during the initial cycles of fatigue to dynamically heal the inherent wea ...[more]