The lowered threshold load for cracking with the cube‐corner indenter has been used in
developing a method that can be used to measure residual stresses in small volume brittle …

Vickers indentation cracks are an appropriate tool to determine the crack-tip toughness KI0
and, possibly, the bridging relation of ceramics with an R-curve behaviour from the total …

The kinetics of homogenization of binary As x Se 100− x melts in the As concentration range
0%< x< 50% are followed in Fourier Transform (FT)-Raman profiling experiments, and show …

The residual pressure surrounding quasistatic and dynamic Vickers indentations in boron
carbide was quantitatively mapped in 3 dimensions using Raman spectroscopy. These …

The anisotropic surface deformation of sapphire has been studied by means of depth-
sensing indentation experiments with a small-radius spherical indenter loaded onto the …

Maps of residual stress distributions arising from anisotropic thermal expansion effects in a
polycrystalline alumina are generated using fluorescence microscopy. The shifts of both the …

The numerical coefficients linearly relating the effects of stress (including pressure),
temperature, and composition to shifts in the energies of the Cr-related fluorescence in …

The microstructurally-induced heterogeneous stress fields arising in a series of Cr-doped
polycrystalline alumina materials are mapped with sub-micrometer sub-grain size resolution …

A Raman luminescence microscope has been used to determine the residual stresses
around Vickers diamond indentations in a relatively large, well-polished, R-cut (10 bar 1 2) …

Confocal Cr3+ fluorescence microscopy is an ideal technique for investigating residual
stresses in alumina-based ceramics. Due to their transparency, however, it is important to …