R-curve behavior of silicon nitride-titanium nitride composites

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 80, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2681-2684

  Choi, Heon Jin ^a   Cho, Kyeong Sik ^a   Lee, June Gunn ^a,c   Kim, Young Wook ^b,c  

^a Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^b University of Seoul   (South Korea)

^c AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; SILICON NITRIDE; STRESSES; TITANIUM NITRIDE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

INDENTATION STRENGTH METHOD;

CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES;

EID: 0031257596     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1997.tb03172.x     Document Type: Article

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