Effect of Thickness on Fracture Toughness of Al6061-Graphite

Subject Areas : Mechanical Engineering

S Doddamani ¹ , M Kaleemulla ²

1 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jain Institute of Technology, Davangere, Karnataka, India
2 - Department of Studies in Mechanical Engineering, U B.D.T. College of Engineering, Karnataka, India

Received: 2019-06-23 Accepted : 2019-08-24 Published : 2019-09-30

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