Controlling Cracks in Ceramics
- 5 November 1999
- journal article
- perspective
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 286 (5442), 1097-1099
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.286.5442.1097
Abstract
Many ceramics are resistant to heat, corrosion, and wear, and they are used in applications ranging from coffee mugs to dental implants to protective tiles on the space shuttle. But they also break easily, and the maximum stress they can withstand varies unpredictably from component to component. Promising new approaches to control their brittleness and reduce the variability in their strength use layered materials, which control cracks by deflection, microcracking, or internal stresses.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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