The ball on three balls test-Strength and failure analysis of different materials

Journal of the European Ceramic Society

Volumn 27, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 1481-1485

  Danzer, Robert ^a,b   Harrer, Walter ^a   Supancic, Peter ^a,b   Lube, Tanja ^a   Wang, Zhonghua ^a   Börger, Andreas ^a  

^a INSTITUT FÜR STRUKTUR UND FUNKTIONSKERAMIK   (Austria)

^b MATERIALS CENTER LEOBEN FORSCHUNG GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Defects; Failure analysis; Strength

Indexed keywords

BIAXIAL STRENGTH; CERAMIC MATERIALS STRENGTH; STRENGTH TESTS; STRESS FIELD;

BRITTLENESS; DEFECTS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TENSILE STRESS; TESTING; TRIBOLOGY;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

BRITTLENESS; CERAMIC MATERIALS; DEFECTS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TENSILE STRESS; TESTING; TRIBOLOGY;

EID: 33751222248     PISSN: 09552219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2006.05.034     Document Type: Article

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