Wear property of ductile iron locally reinforced with Cr-containing steel inserts

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Wear property of ductile iron locally reinforced with

Cr-containing steel inserts

Mayerling Martinez Celis, Nathalie Valle, Jacques Lacaze, Ingolfur

Thorbjornsson, Birgir Johannesson, Jon Thor Thorgrimsson, Bojan Pogornik,

Joze Vizintin

To cite this version:

Mayerling Martinez Celis, Nathalie Valle, Jacques Lacaze, Ingolfur Thorbjornsson, Birgir Johan-nesson, et al.. Wear property of ductile iron locally reinforced with Cr-containing steel in-serts. Key Engineering Materials, Trans Tech Publications, 2010, vol. 457, pp. 441-446. �10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.457.441�. �hal-00865736�

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Eprints ID : 5860

To link to this article : DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.457.441

URL : http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.457.441

To cite this version : Martinez Celis, Mayerling and Valle, Nathalie and Lacaze,

Jacques and Thorbjornsson, Ingolfur and Johannesson, Birgir and Thorgrimsson, Jon Thor and Pogornik, Bojan and Vizintin, Joze. Wear property of ductile iron locally reinforced with Cr-containing steel inserts. (2010) Key Engineering Materials, vol. 457 . pp. 441-446. ISSN 1013-9826

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