Effect of amorphous lamella on the crack propagation behavior of crystalline Mg/amorphous Mg

Effect of amorphous lamella on the crack propagation behavior of crystalline Mg/amorphous Mg–Al nanocomposites

Song Hai-Yang^{1, †,}, Li Yu-Long^{2, ‡,}

Snapshots of C/A Mg/Mg–Al nanocomposites with d value of 1.5 nm, under tensile strain values of (a) 0.032, (b) 0.050, (c) 0.054, (d) 0.080, (e) 0.082, and (f) 0.118. The atoms are colored according to the common neighbor analysis. The perfect hcp atoms are removed for clarity.