Brittle Fracture versus Quasi Plasticity in Ceramics: A Simple Predictive Index

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 561-565

  Rhee, Young Woo ^a,b   Kim, Hae Won ^a,c   Deng, Yan ^a,d   Lawn, Brian R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE FRACTURE; ELASTIC MODULI; HARDNESS; INDENTATION; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; PLASTICITY; TOUGHNESS;

HERTZIAN CONTACT; INDENTATION SIZE EFFECTS; INDENTER RADII; PREDICTIVE INDEX; QUASI PLASTICITY;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0035297360     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.2001.tb00698.x     Document Type: Article

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