R curves and crack-stability map: Application to Ce-TZP/Al 2O 3

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 90, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3554-3558

  Kaur, Sarbjit ^a   Shetty, Dinesh K ^a,b   Cutler, Raymond A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACK-DRIVING FORCE; CRACK-STABILITY MAP; PLATEAU TOUGHNESS;

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; TOUGHENING;

CRACKS;

EID: 35948951678     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: 15512916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2007.01940.x     Document Type: Article

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