Fracture toughness is an important property that characterizes a material's brittleness or
resistance to fracture. Although some fracture toughness test methods have been refined …

Grinding offers capabilities that range from high-rate material removal to high-precision
superfinishing, and has become one of the most widely used industrial machining and …

Lapping and polishing are currently the most precise surface finishing processes for
mechanical and electronic components. Unfortunately, most improvements in either …

The fracture strength of Si is considered in the context of yield and reliability of
microelectronic and microelectromechanical (MEMS) devices. An overview of Si fracture …

Majority of the fracture toughness studies of metallic materials typically use the Chevron
notch technique, compact specimens and round notched tensile specimens. These methods …

During vehicle accidents, occupant's head impacting on windshield or side window is
commonly observed. Any attempt to design glazing that minimizes injury to and death of …

Fracture toughness of silicon crystals has been investigated using indentation methods, and
their surface energies have been calculated by molecular dynamics (MD). In order to …

The fracture behavior induced by Vickers indentations in fused silica was investigated as a
function of temperature. Indentations were performed from room temperature to 400° C in …

Fracture toughness, hardness and elastic modulus of hydrogenated amorphous carbon thin
films produced from butene gas deposited by chemical vapor deposition on silicon were …

An instrumented indentation microscope was constructed and applied to the measurements
of the Meyer hardness and the elastic modulus of several engineering materials ranging …