经赖特-帕特森空军基地航空实验室材料工程师F·W·瓦尔迪克研究,采用特殊的压力技术在室温下,实现了很脆的二硼化钛晶体的宏观变形。瓦尔迪克指出,该变形通过弹性-塑性机理在六面体结构的晶面或滑移面上产生。一些已形成的单晶棒环绕着棱面(edge planes),这表明发生了脆性-延性转变。由于找到了在室温下提高高温材料延性 F · W · Valdike, a materials engineer at the Aviation Laboratory at Wright-Patterson AFB, has studied the use of special pressure techniques to achieve macroscopic deformation of very brittle titanium diboride crystals at room temperature. Waldick states that this deformation is produced on the crystal face or slip plane of the hexahedral structure through a spring-plastic mechanism. Some of the formed single crystal rods encircled edge planes, indicating that a brittle-ductile transition occurred. Due to the high temperature material ductility found at room temperature