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Predicting Fracture Resistance of Brittle Crystals

Published

Author(s)

Grady S. White, Stephen W. Freiman, Lin-Sien H. Lum

Abstract

A simple expression is derived relating fracture surface energy to easily measured material properties, i.e., the elastic Young's modulus and the equilibrium atomic plane spacing via a proportionality constant, k. This expression appears to be independent of the force law used to describe the bonding. Comparison with experimental values of fracture surface energy in a variety of cubic crystals the expression results in a strong positive correlation between calculated and measured values.
Citation
Journal of the American Ceramic Society
Pub Type
Journals

Keywords

fracture surface energy, model, single crystal
Ceramics and Biomaterials

Citation

White, G. , Freiman, S. and Lum, L. (2017), Predicting Fracture Resistance of Brittle Crystals, Journal of the American Ceramic Society (Accessed May 10, 2025)

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Created February 19, 2017