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Fracture Toughness of a Partially Stabilized ZrO 2 in the System CaO‐ZrO 2
Author(s) -
GREEN DAVID J.,
NICHOLSON PATRICK S.,
EMBURY J. DAVID
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
journal of the american ceramic society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.9
H-Index - 196
eISSN - 1551-2916
pISSN - 0002-7820
DOI - 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1973.tb12438.x
Subject(s) - fracture toughness , materials science , fracture mechanics , microstructure , fracture (geology) , composite material , crack growth resistance curve , work (physics) , enhanced data rates for gsm evolution , toughness , crack closure , thermodynamics , telecommunications , physics , computer science
The room‐temperature fracture behavior of partially stabilized ZrO 3 (PSZ) in the system CaO‐ZrO 2 was investigated. Fracture energy was measured using standard single‐edge‐crack and work‐of‐fracture techniques. Attempts were made to relate the fracture toughness parameters to the microstructure of the material. Stable crack propagation was always observed; a model is proposed to explain these observations on the basis of the formation of a microcrack zone at the tip of a propagating crack. The occurrence of initial stable crack propagation is explained in terms of an increase in microcrack zone size. The possibility that crack stability results from testing geometry superimposed on the microcracking stability is also discussed.