Stiffness of grain-bridging elements in a monolithic alumina

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1293-1297

  Hay, Jack C ^a,b   White, Kenneth W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACKS; STIFFNESS; TENSILE PROPERTIES;

MONOLITHIC ALUMINA; POSTFRACTURE TENSILE TECHNIQUE;

ALUMINA;

EID: 0031145783     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1997.tb02980.x     Document Type: Article

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