August 1, 1995
Author(s)
William E. Luecke, Sheldon M. Wiederhorn, B Hockey, Ralph Krause, Gabrielle G. Long
During tensile creep of a hot isostatically pressed (HIPed) silicon nitride, the volume fraction of cavities increases linearly with strain; these cavities produce nearly all of the measured strain. In contrast, compressive creep in the same stress and