Abstract
The mechanical fatigue of structural ceramics has been studied by means of two complementary approaches: numerical simulation of the slow crack growth, and a set of experiments, on polycrystalline alumina. Four loading cases have been considered and the influence of the stress frequency was characterized. The good agreement which was observed between the simulated and the experimental results provides a strong argument for the development of numerical methods in future work.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 4667-4677 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Journal of Materials Science |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue number | 17 |
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| State | Published - Sep 1991 |