Alloying: Understanding the Basics
Electrical Contact Alloys
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Published:2001
Abstract
This article explains how alloying elements affect the properties and behaviors of electrical contacts. It describes the composition, strength, hardness, and conductivity of a wide range of contact alloys and composites based on silver, copper, gold, platinum, palladium, tungsten, and molybdenum, and related oxides and carbides.
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Member Sign InElectrical Contact Alloys, Alloying: Understanding the Basics, Edited By J.R. Davis, ASM International, 2001, p 596–613, https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.tb.aub.t61170596
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