Slow Growth of Microcracks: Evidence for One Type of ZrO2 Toughening
- 1 November 1982
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the American Ceramic Society
- Vol. 65 (11) , C‐190-C‐191
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1151-2916.1982.tb10795.x
Abstract
Alumina containing 15 vol% monoclinic ZrO2 dispersed at the grain boundaries exhibited very high room‐temperature fracture toughness (∼11 MPa·m1/2) on cooling from 1275°C when microcrack precursors nucleated at Ts. With increasing time (up to ∼12 h) at room temperature, KIc and Young's modulus decreased when dilational and thermal‐expansion strains subcritically propagated inter granular microcracks. Thus, transformation toughening of ceramics with inter crystalline ZrO2 dispersions is to a great extent caused by microcrack nucleation and extension.Keywords
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