Short Crack R-Curves in Ferroelectric and Electrostrictive PLZT

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 593-597

  Chen, Wei ^a   Lupascu, Doru C ^b   Rödel, Jürgen ^b   Lynch, Christopher S ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION EFFECTS; CRACK PROPAGATION; ELASTICITY; ELECTROSTRICTION; FERROELECTRIC CERAMICS; TOUGHENING; TOUGHNESS;

ELECTROSTRICTIVE LINEAR ELASTIC BEHAVIOR; FERROELASTIC BEHAVIOR; LEAD LANTHANUM ZIRCONATE TITANATE;

LEAD COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0035297350     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.2001.tb00704.x     Document Type: Article

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