High-Temperature Fracture Energy of Superplastically Forged Silicon Nitride

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 84, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1791-1796

  Kondo, Naoki ^a   Inagaki, Yoshiaki ^b   Suzuki, Yoshikazu ^a   Ohji, Tatsuki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b Fine Ceramics Research Association   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; FRACTURE MECHANICS; FRACTURE TESTING; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUPERPLASTICITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BENDING TESTS; CHEVRON NOTCHED BEAMS; DISPLACEMENT RATES; HIGH TEMPERATURE FRACTURE ENERGY;

SILICON NITRIDE;

EID: 0035437654     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.2001.tb00916.x     Document Type: Article

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