PSI - Issue 13

Naoyuki Tsutsui et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 13 (2018) 849–854 Author name / Structural Integrity Procedia 00 (2018) 000 – 000

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In conclusion, in LME, low-melting-point metals have two effects: lowering the cleavage plane strength, and penetration into grain boundaries of the solid metal. The latter results in a large decrease in the strength of the grain boundaries and induces intergranular fracture, as in the case of Zn solid Ga liquid . The former results in transgranular fracture when the latter does not occur, as in the case of Zn solid In liquid and Zn solid Sn liquid .

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