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Volumes 11 and 12 of the series contain the 90 papers of an international symposium in Karlsruhe, Germany, in July 1995, which continued the investigation of failure behavior in monolithic engineering ceramics and reinforced ceramics. Addresses recent developments in the understanding and modelling
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Utilization Techniques for Structural Ceramics (M. Matsui). Distribution of Crack Face Bridging Tractions and the Shielding Stress Intensity Factor for Bridged Cracks (H. Basoalto et al.). Process Zone Modeling of Polycrystalline Alumina (D.K. Tran et al.). Rcurve Measurement of Alumina Using Straight Notched or Indented Bending Bars (S. Sakaguchi). Size Dependence of the Rcurve of Quasibrittle Materials (E.H. Lutz et al.). Renotching: An Important Tool to the Rcurve Study of Ceramics (E.H. Lutz, M. Sakai). Process Zone Characterization in a Structural Ceramic (J.C. Hay, K.W. White). Simulation of Crack Propagation Behavior in Polycrystalline Materials (B.N. Kim et al.). Fracture Mechanics Evaluation of Ceramics by Stable Crack Propagation in Bend Bar Specimens (T. Nishida et al.). Near Crack Tip Bridging by the Precipitate Phase in MgPSZ (M. Hoffman et al.). Calculation of Phase Transformation Zones and Residual COD Fields in Transformation Toughened Zirconia (T. Fett). Fracture Mechanics and Microscopy Study on Highpurity Polycrystalline Silicon Nitride (G. Pezzotti et al.). Toughness Determination from Stable Growth of Long and Short Cracks in Si3N4 Ceramics (R. Kurth et al.). The Crackface Bridging of Brittle Matrix Composites (J.W. Cao, M. Sakai). 32 additional articles. Index.
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Volumes 11 and 12 of the series contain the 90 papers of an international symposium in Karlsruhe, Germany, in July 1995, which continued the investigation of failure behavior in monolithic engineering ceramics and reinforced ceramics. Addresses recent developments in the understanding and modelling
