Indentation crack length anisotropy in silicon nitride with aligned reinforcing grains

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 663-665

  Park, Dong Soo ^a,b   Kim, Chang Won ^a,b  

^a Korea Institute of Machine and Materials   (South Korea)

^b Bosung Electronics Co Ltd   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CASTING; CERAMIC MATERIALS; CRACKS; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; SINTERING; SPALLING;

VICKERS INDENTATION;

SILICON NITRIDE;

EID: 0033873541     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.2000.tb01252.x     Document Type: Article

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