Experimental determination of the fracture toughness via microscratch tests: Application to polymers, ceramics, and metals

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 485-493

  Akono, Ange Therese ^a   Randall, Nicholas X ^b   Ulm, Franz Josef ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b CSM Instruments   (United States)

Author keywords

Fracture; Nanoindentation; Toughness

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION; FRACTURE PROCESS; FRACTURE PROPERTY; FRACTURE TEST; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS VALUES; MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING; MICRO-SCALES; MICRO-SCRATCH TEST; MICROSCRATCHES; NON DESTRUCTIVE; OPTICAL IMAGING; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SCRATCH TEST;

ACOUSTIC EMISSION TESTING; FRACTURE; FRACTURE TESTING; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; NANOINDENTATION; POLYMERS; TOUGHNESS;

FRACTURE TOUGHNESS;

EID: 84856138136     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: 20445326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2011.402     Document Type: Article

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