The Effect of Grinding Conditions on Lead Zirconate Titanate Machinability

Journal of the European Ceramic Society

Volumn 19, Issue 6-7, 1999, Pages 1311-1313

  Goat, C A ^a,b   Whatmore, R W ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Loadpoint Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actuators.; Machining; Piezoelectric properties; PZT; Surfaces

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; BRITTLENESS; GRINDING (MACHINING); IMAGE ANALYSIS; MACHINABILITY; PEROVSKITE; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TITANIUM OXIDES;

LEAD ZIRCONATE TITANATE; MICRODEVICES; PIEZOELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0032658501     PISSN: 09552219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0955-2219(98)00426-9     Document Type: Article

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