Failure behavior of ceramics for Gyrotron windows

Fusion Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 170-178

  Fett, Theo ^a,b   Munz, Dietrich ^a,b,c  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ceramic materials; Lifetimes; Strength

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; CERAMIC MATERIALS; CRACK INITIATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; SAPPHIRE; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WINDOWS; ZIRCONIA;

CERAMIC WINDOWS;

GYROTRONS;

EID: 0031235809     PISSN: 07481896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/FST97-A19889     Document Type: Article

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