Microscale fracture measurements with application to comminution

International Journal of Mineral Processing

Volumn 44-45, Issue SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 43-58

  Middlemiss, S ^a   King, R P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMINUTION; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSTRUCTURE; PROBES;

ADJACENT GRAIN; INDENTATION FRACTURE; INDENTATION TEST; MICROSCALE FRACTURE MEASUREMENTS; MICROSTRUCTURAL PROBE; MINERAL LIBERATION; PARTICLE BREAKAGE TESTS;

FRACTURE TOUGHNESS;

COMMINUTION; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; INDENTATION TEST;

EID: 0030093739     PISSN: 03017516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0301-7516(95)00016-X     Document Type: Article

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