Computer simulation of grain growth and ostwald ripening in alumina-zirconia two-phase composites

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 80, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1773-1780

  Fan, Danan ^a,b,c   Chen, Long Qing ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; GRAIN GROWTH; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSTRUCTURE; REACTION KINETICS; VOLUME FRACTION; ZIRCONIA;

ALUMINA ZIRCONIA TWO PHASE COMPOSITE; DIFFUSE INTERFACE FIELD MODEL; GRAIN BOUNDARY ENERGY; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION; INTERPHASE BOUNDARY ENERGY; OSTWALD RIPENING; POWER GROWTH LAW;

CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES;

EID: 0031187447     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1997.tb03051.x     Document Type: Article

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