Fracture toughness and surface energies of covalent minerals: Theoretical estimates

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-15

  Tromans, D ^a   Meech, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Comminution; Crushing; Fine particle processing; Grinding; Industrial minerals

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; CRUSHING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIAMONDS; ELASTIC MODULI; ENTHALPY; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRINDING (COMMINUTION); INTERFACIAL ENERGY; LOADS (FORCES); POISSON RATIO; STIFFNESS; TENSILE STRESS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

FINE PARTICLE PROCESSING; INDUSTRIAL MINERALS; STRAIN ENERGY;

MINERALS;

EID: 0942278993     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2003.09.006     Document Type: Article

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