Functional and structural ceramics have become irreplaceable in countless high-tech
applications. However, their inherent brittleness tremendously limits the application range …

In many applications, brittle fracture limits the use of ceramic materials. In the electronics
industry for example, ceramics are used as substrates and dielectrics because of their …

Dislocation slip, deformation twinning, phase transformations, and fast fracture are energy
dissipation mechanisms that accommodate mechanical loading in materials. The …

Most oxide ceramics are known to be brittle macroscopically at room temperature with little
or no dislocation‐based plasticity prior to crack propagation. Here, we demonstrate the size …

High strength and high toughness are usually mutually exclusive in engineering materials.
In ceramics, improving toughness usually relies on the introduction of a metallic or polymeric …

Historically, pure zirconia has been of limited use as a structural ceramic because of its
polymorphic tetragonal to monoclinic (t-+ m) phase trans formation at about 1200 C, which …

THE science governing the strength and fracture of structural ceramics has developed from
a mostly empirical topic in 1965 into a mature discipline that now sets the standards in the …

Ceramic materials have been widely used for structural applications. However, most
ceramics have rather limited plasticity at low temperatures and fracture well before the onset …

A Comprehensive and Self-Contained Treatment of the Theory and Practical Applications of
Ceramic Materials When failure occurs in ceramic materials, it is often catastrophic …

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