Tyler’s Al6061 cold spray work was published at Scripta Materialia!

Tyler J. Flanagan, Benjamin Bedard, Alex Ernst, Avinash M. Dongare, Seok-Woo Lee, Harold D. Brody, Victor K. Champagne Jr, Mark Aindow, “Mechanical properties of supersonic-impacted Al6061 microparticles,” – Scripta Materialia, 171, 52-56 (2019) [PDF] [web].

This work studied the mechanical properties of Al6061 microparticles that undergo supersonic impacts with ~1 km/s impact velocity. The effects of initial microstructures and impact velocities on mechanical properties were investigated. This work includes various in-situ videos of micro-compression/tension tests. Please enjoy two of them below!

 

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