Mukhopadhyay, Anoop Kumar and Datta, S K and Chakraborty, D (1999) Fracture toughness of structural ceramics. Ceramics International, 25 (5). pp. 447-454. ISSN 0272-8842

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Abstract

A comparative study of fracture toughness evaluation at room temperature of three different structural ceramics viz. sintered alumina, silicon carbide and silicon nitride is reported. Four methods of fracture toughness evaluation such as the single edge notched beam (SENB) technique, chevron notched beam (CNB) technique, indentation fracture (IF) technique and fractographic methods (FM) were compared. In addition, for a given method, the influence of several experimental parameters, e.g. blade width, notch tip radius, normalised notch length and the loading rate on the measured value of fracture toughness was investigated in the cases of the aforesaid materials. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Limited and Techna S.r.l. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Engineering Materials
Divisions:	UNSPECIFIED
Depositing User:	Bidhan Chaudhuri
Date Deposited:	20 Jun 2012 08:01
Last Modified:	20 Jun 2012 08:01
URI:	http://cgcri.csircentral.net/id/eprint/1523

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