Hertzian contact damage in porous alumina ceramics

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1027-1031

  Latella, Bruno A ^a   O'Connor, Brian H ^a   Padture, Nitin P ^b,c,d   Lawn, Brian R ^b,c  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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

^c AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONDED INTERFACE SECTIONING TECHNIQUE; HERTZIAN CONTACT DAMAGE;

CERAMIC MATERIALS; CRACK PROPAGATION; DEFORMATION; FATIGUE TESTING; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); POROUS MATERIALS; STRESS ANALYSIS; TENSILE TESTING;

SINTERED ALUMINA;

EID: 0031125827     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1997.tb02940.x     Document Type: Article

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