Strength of highly porous ceramic electrodes

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3500-3508

  Liu, Xiaoxing ^a   Martin, Christrophe L ^a   Bouvard, Didier ^a   Di Iorio, Stéphane ^b   Laurencin, Jérome ^b   Delette, Gérard ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BI-LAYER; COMPLEX MICROSTRUCTURES; CRITICAL COMPONENT; DISCRETE ELEMENT SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FRACTURE BEHAVIOR; FRACTURE MODEL; LENGTH SCALE; PORE FORMERS; POROUS CERAMICS; SINTERED CERAMICS; SINTERED PARTICLES; TENSION AND COMPRESSION;

CERAMIC MATERIALS; FRACTURE; FUEL CELLS; MICROSTRUCTURE; SINTERING;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 80053982986     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: 15512916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2011.04669.x     Document Type: Article

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