Model Experiments Concerning Abnormal Grain Growth in Silicon Nitride

Journal of the European Ceramic Society

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3-14

  Dressler, Wolfgang ^a,b   Kleebe, Hans Joachim ^a,c   Hoffmann, Michael J ^a   Rühle, Manfred ^a   Petzow, Günter ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLENESS; CERAMIC MATERIALS; CRACKS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; GRAIN GROWTH; MORPHOLOGY; POWDERS;

CAPILLARY FORCES; HOMOGENIZATION; SECONDARY PHASE DISTRIBUTION;

SILICON NITRIDE;

EID: 0029734068     PISSN: 09552219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0955-2219(95)00175-1     Document Type: Article

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