Push-to-pull tensile testing of ultra-strong nanoscale ceramic-polymer composites made by additive manufacturing

Extreme Mechanics Letters

Volumn 3, Issue , 2015, Pages 105-112

  Bauer, Jens ^a   Schroer, Almut ^a   Schwaiger, Ruth ^a   Tesari, Iwiza ^a   Lange, Christian ^a   Valdevit, Lorenzo ^b   Kraft, Oliver ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

3D printing; Alumina; Microarchitecture; Size effects; Theoretical strength

Indexed keywords

3D PRINTERS; ALUMINA; ALUMINUM OXIDE; CERAMIC MATERIALS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POROUS MATERIALS; SIZE DETERMINATION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

3-D PRINTING; MATERIAL THICKNESS; MICRO ARCHITECTURES; NANO-SCALE CERAMICS; POLYMER COMPOSITE; SIZE EFFECTS; STRUCTURAL BEHAVIORS; THEORETICAL STRENGTH;

TENSILE TESTING;

EID: 84930209457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23524316     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eml.2015.03.006     Document Type: Article

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