Influence of particle size distribution on ductile-phase toughening in brittle materials

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 562-564

  Sun, Xudong ^a,b   Yeomans, Julie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLENESS; DUCTILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; TOUGHENING;

DOUBLE CANTILEVER BEAM (DCB) METHOD; DUCTILE PHASE TOUGHENING;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

EID: 0030087094     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1996.tb08170.x     Document Type: Article

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