Preliminary study of the crack healing and strength recovery of Al2O3-matrix composites

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 89-97

  Jun, L ^a,b   Zheng, Z X ^b   Ding, H F ^b   Jin, Z H ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Alumina; Bending strength; Composite; Crack healing; Strength recovery

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; ANNEALING; CRACKS; DEFECTS; HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS; INDENTATION; LOADS (FORCES); SILICON COMPOUNDS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS; VACUUM; ZIRCONIUM COMPOUNDS;

ALUMINA MATRIX COMPOSITES; CRACK HEALING; STRENGTH RECOVERY; SURFACE FLAWS; VICKERS INDENTATION;

CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES;

EID: 1342345982     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.2004.00725.x     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Gupta, T. K. (1975) Crack healing in thermally shocked Mgo. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 58, 143.
2. Gupta, T. K. (1976) Crack healing and strengthening of thermally shocked alumina. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 59, 259-262.
3. Ohya, Y. and Nakagawa, Z.-E. (1988) Crack healing and bending strength of aluminum titanate ceramics at high temperature. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 71, c232-c233.
4. Choi, S. R. and Tikare, V. (1993) Crack healing of alumina with a residual glassy phase: Strength, fracture, toughness and fatigue. Mater. Sci. Engng A 171, 77-83.
5. Li, J. (1999) Improved strength recovery of a titanium composite from thermal shock damage via microwave heating. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 82, 1576-1578.
6. Kim, H.-E. (1997) Strength of alumina by formation of a mullite/glass layer on the surface. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 80, 1877-1880.
7. 3-SiC nanocomposites. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 78, 567-571.
8. Chou, I. A. (1998) Effect of annealing environment on the crack healing and mechanical behavior of silicon carbide-reinforced alumina nanocomposites. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 81, 1203-1208.
9. Kim, H.-E. (1994) Oxidation behavior and effects of oxidation on the strength of SiC-wisker reinforced alumina. J. Mater. Sci. 29, 1656-1661.
10. 3 composites. J. Mater. Sci. 29, 2078-2082.
11. Korous, J. (2000) Crack healing behavior of silicon carbide ceramics. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 83, 2788-2792.
12. 4/SiC composite ceramics. Fatigue Fract. Engng Mater. Struct. 22, 897-903.
13. Moffat, J. E. (1996) High temperature crack annealing effects on fracture toughness of alumina and alumina-SiC composite. Br. Ceram. Trans. 95, 23-29.
14. Rödel, J. and Glaeser, A. M. (1987) Production of controlled-morphology pore arrays: implications and opportunities. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 70, c-172-c-175.
15. Rödel, J. and Glaeser, A. M. (1990) High-temperature healing of lithographically introduced cracks in sapphire. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 73, 592-601.
16. Zhang, Y. H., Edwards, L. and Plumbridge, W.J. (1998) Crack healing in a silicon nitride ceramic. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 81, 1861-1868.
17. 3. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 53, 290.
18. Solomah, A. C. (1990) Mechanical properties, thermal shock resistance, and thermal stability of zirconia-toughened alumina-10 vol% silicon carbide whisker ceramic matrix composite. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 73, 740-743.
19. Schneibel, J. H. (1998) Cyclic thermal shock resistance of several advanced ceramics and ceramic composites. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 81, 1888-1892.
20. Tiegs, T. N. and Becher, P. F. (1987) Thermal shock behavior of an alumina-SiC wisker composite. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 70, C109-C111.
21. Luthra, K. L. and Park, H. D. (1990) Oxidation of silicon carbide-reinforced oxide-matrix composites at 1375°C to 1575°C. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 73, 1014.
22. 3-SiC nanocomposite. Mater. Sci. Eng. A 195, 163-167.
23. Marshall, D. B., Lawn, B. R. and Chantikul, P. (1979) Residual stress effects in sharps contact cracking. Part 2. Strength degradation. J. Mater. Sci. 14, 2225-2235.
24. Chantikul, P., Antis, G. R., Lawn, B. R. and Marshall, D. B. (1981) A critical evaluation of indentation techniques for measuring fracture toughness: 2. Strength method. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 64, 539-543.
25. Sathyamoorthy, R., Virkar, A. V. and Cutler, R. A. (1992) Damage-resistance Si-C-AlN layered composites with surface compressive stresses. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 75, 1136-1141.
26. Lakshminarayanan, R., Shetty, D. K. and Cutler, R. A. (1996) Toughing of layered ceramic composites with residual surface composion. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 79, 79-87.
27. Marple, B. R. and Green, D. J. (1992) Mullite/alumina particulate composites by infiltration pressing. Residule stress profiles. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 75, 44-51.
28. Kim, Y. and Case, E. (1992) Time-dependent elastic modulus recovery measurement on thermally shocked SiC fiber-aluminosilicate composite, machinable glass ceramics and polycrystalline alumina. J. Mater. Sci. 27, 1537-1545.
29. Hockey, B. J. and Lawn, B. R. (1975) Electron microscopy of microcracking about indentations in aluminum oxide and silicon carbide. J. Mater. Sci. 10, 1275-1284.
30. 3. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 53, 420-421.
31. Evans, A. G. and Charles, E. A. (1977) Strength recovery by diffusive crack healing. Acta Matall. 25, 919-927.
32. Powers, J. D. and Glaser, A. M. (1992) High-temperature healing of crack like flaws in Mg- and Ca-ion-implanted sapphire. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 75, 2547-2558.
33. Powers, J. D. and Glaser, A. M. (1993) High-temperature healing of crack like flaws in titanium ion-implanted sapphire. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 76, 2225-2234.