Models of high-temperature, environmentally assisted embrittlement in ceramic-matrix composites

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 79, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2345-2352

  Evans, Anthony G ^a,b   Zok, Frank W ^a,b   McMeeking, Robert M ^a   Du, Zheng Z ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC FIBERS; COATINGS; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; DIFFUSION; EMBRITTLEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OXIDATION; OXIDES; STRESS CORROSION CRACKING; STRESSES;

CRACK GROWTH THRESHOLD; CRACK VELOCITY; INTERMEDIATE TEMPERATURE OXIDATION EMBRITTLEMENT; OXYGEN INGRESS; STRESS DEPENDENCE;

CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES;

EID: 0030243139     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1996.tb08982.x     Document Type: Article

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