Fracture toughness testing for advanced technical ceramics: Internationally agreed good practice

Advances in Applied Ceramics

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 88-98

  Morrell, Roger ^a  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Advanced ceramics; Fracture toughness; R curve behaviour; Round robin tests; Standardisation

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL TESTS;

ROUND ROBIN TESTS;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

EID: 33746376255     PISSN: 17436753     EISSN: 17436761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/174367606X84422     Document Type: Article

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