Metal treatment – Process of modifying or maintaining internal physical... – Heating or cooling of solid metal
Reexamination Certificate
2011-02-08
2011-02-08
Wyszomierski, George (Department: 1793)
Metal treatment
Process of modifying or maintaining internal physical...
Heating or cooling of solid metal
C148S672000
Reexamination Certificate
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07883592
ABSTRACT:
A method of forming bulk metallic glass engineering materials, and more particularly a method for forming coarsening microstructures within said engineering materials is provided. Specifically, the method forms ‘designed composites’ by introducing ‘soft’ elastic/plastic inhomogeneities in a metallic glass matrix to initiate local shear banding around the inhomogeneity, and matching of microstructural length scales (for example, L and S) to the characteristic length scale RP(for plastic shielding of an opening crack tip) to limit shear band extension, suppress shear band opening, and avoid crack development.
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Hofmann Douglas C.
Johnson William C.
California Institute of Technology
Kauth, Pomeroy, Peck & Bailey LLP
Wyszomierski George
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