Laminar ceramics utilizing the zirconia tetragonal-to-monoclinic phase transformation to obtain a threshold strength

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 85, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 3041-3048

  Pontin, Michael G ^a   Rao, Masa P ^a   Sánchez Herencia, Antonio J ^b   Lange, Fred F ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE CERÁMICA Y VIDRIO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; COOLING; GRAIN GROWTH; LAMINATES; MICROCRACKING; MICROSTRUCTURE; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; VOLUME FRACTION; ZIRCONIA;

CERAMIC LAMINATES; COMPRESSIVE GROWTH; MONOCLINIC PHASE TRANSFORMATION; PIEZOSPECTROSCOPIC STRESS MEASUREMENTS; THRESHOLD STRENGTH;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0036967143     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.2002.tb00576.x     Document Type: Article

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