Analyses of the role of the second phase SiC particles in microstructure dependent fracture resistance variation of SiC-Si3N4 nanocomposites

Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Tomar, Vikas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISSIPATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MICROSTRUCTURE; SILICON CARBIDE;

MATRIX CRACKING; PHASE MORPHOLOGY;

NANOCOMPOSITES;

EID: 42549096048     PISSN: 09650393     EISSN: 1361651X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0965-0393/16/3/035001     Document Type: Article

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