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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.
White, G.
, Freiman, S.
and Lum, L.
(2017),
Predicting Fracture Resistance of Brittle Crystals, Journal of the American Ceramic Society
(Accessed April 18, 2024)