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 of 10.0 nm, under tensile strain values of (a) 0.055, (b) 0.120, (c) 0.143, and (d) 0.252. The atoms are colored according to the common neighbor analysis.