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Apparent fracture toughness master curve of a zirconia-alumina composite

Recently, the existence of specimen-size-independent Weibull master curves characterizing strength and failure of macroscopically homogeneous, brittle materials, if the Weibull modulus m > 1, has been demonstrated by the present author. Furthermore, an app ...

1998

TOUGHENING BY CRACK BRIDGING IN HETEROGENEOUS CERAMICS

William Curtin

The toughening of a ceramic by crack bridging is considered, including the heterogeneity caused simply by spatial randomness in the bridge locations, The growth of a single planar crack is investigated numerically by representing the microstructure as an a ...

1995

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