Enhancement of fracture toughness in nanostructured diamond-SiC composites

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1356-1358

  Zhao, Yusheng ^a   Qian, Jiang ^a   Daemen, Luke L ^a   Pantea, Cristian ^a   Zhang, Jianzhong ^a   Voronin, Georgiy A ^b   Zerda, T Waldek ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACK DEFLECTION PROCESS; MOLAR RATIO;

ANNEALING; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; BALL MILLING; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DIAMONDS; ELASTIC MODULI; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; HARDNESS; INFILTRATION; MORPHOLOGY; SILICON CARBIDE; SINTERING; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; WEAR RESISTANCE; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 1642282768     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1650556     Document Type: Article

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