Grain boundary film thicknesses in superplastically deformed silicon nitride

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1213-1221

  Wang, Chong Min ^a   Mitomo, Mamoru ^a,b   Nishimura, Toshiyuki ^a   Bando, Yoshio ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; SUPERPLASTICITY;

CERAMIC FILMS; SUPERPLASTIC DEFORMATION;

SILICON NITRIDE;

EID: 0031144142     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1997.tb02967.x     Document Type: Article

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