Polishing behavior and surface quality of alumina and alumina/silicon carbide nanocomposites

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1219-1225

  Kara, Hudai ^a   Roberts, Steve G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; CHEMICAL POLISHING; COMPOSITION EFFECTS; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; GRINDING (COMMINUTION); LAPPING; SILICON CARBIDE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

POLISHING GRIT SIZE; SURFACE QUALITY;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0033746648     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.2000.tb01357.x     Document Type: Article

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