With the aim of improving the toughness of ceramic materials, laminated composites have
been successfully developed since Clegg et al.(1990) inserted weak interfaces using very …

Various methods exist to improve the toughness and reduce the sensitivity to the defects in
ceramic materials; however, the bionic laminated ceramics are the most promising ones. In …

The effect of macroscopic residual stresses on the fracture resistance and stable/unstable
crack growth in Si3N4/Si3N4–30 wt% TiN layered ceramics has been investigated. The …

Multilayer ceramics with five thick layers of alumina-YTZP and four thin layers of alumina-
pure zirconia have been fabricated by slip casting and mechanically characterized in order …

Layered ceramics have been proposed as an alternative choice for the design of structural
ceramics with improved fracture toughness, strength and reliability. The use of residual …

Layered ceramics designed with weak interfaces favour interface delamination, while
laminates with strong interfaces show higher strength and enhanced mechanical reliability …

In this manuscript the potential of building tough, layered ceramic composites with
embedded “protective” features has been explored. Novel concepts have been pursued to …

This work demonstrates damage tolerant behavior of ceramic laminates designed with
residual stresses and free of surface edge cracks. Non-periodic architectures were designed …

Laminated ZrB2–SiC ceramics with residual surface compression were prepared by
stacking layers with different SiC contents. The maximum apparent fracture toughness of …

Ceramics offer several attractive properties of industrial relevance, eg high strength and
hardness, low thermal conductivity, and chemical inertness in critical environments. There is …