Spark plasma sintering of TiC-based composites toughened by submicron SiC particles

Ceramics International

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 5077-5082

  Cheng, Lixia ^a   Xie, Zhipeng ^a   Liu, Guanwei ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GENERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NONFERROUS METALS   (China)

Author keywords

Fracture mechanism; Fracture toughness; Spark plasma sintering; TiC SiC

Indexed keywords

CRACK PATHS; FRACTURE MECHANISMS; FRACTURE MODE TRANSITIONS; INTERGRANULAR; SIC PARTICLES; TIC-SIC; TIC-SIC COMPOSITES; TRANSGRANULAR;

FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; SPARK PLASMA SINTERING; TEXTURES; TITANIUM CARBIDE;

SILICON CARBIDE;

EID: 84875751071     PISSN: 02728842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2012.12.002     Document Type: Article

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