Short-crack toughness and abrasive machining of silicon nitride

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 79, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 3055-3064

  Xu, Hockin H K ^a,b,c   Jahanmir, Said ^a   Ives, Lewis K ^a   Job, Lenox S ^a,d   Ritchie, Kevin T ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; CRACK INITIATION; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; FRACTURE; GRINDING (MACHINING); HARDNESS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROCRACKS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; SURFACE PHENOMENA; TOUGHNESS;

ABRASIVE MACHINING; INDENTATION FRACTURE MODEL; INDENTATION STRENGTH TECHNIQUE;

SILICON NITRIDE;

EID: 0030401342     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1996.tb08077.x     Document Type: Article

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