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Cavitational Strain Contribution to Tensile Creep in Vitreous Bonded Ceramics
Author(s) -
Lofaj František,
Okada Akira,
Kawamoto Hiroshi
Publication year - 1997
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.1151-2916.1997.tb03029.x
Subject(s) - materials science , ultimate tensile strength , cavitation , creep , composite material , deformation (meteorology) , ceramic , volume fraction , strain (injury) , silicon nitride , stress (linguistics) , mechanics , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , physics , layer (electronics)
Analysis of the role of cavitation during uniaxial creep deformation in vitreous bonded ceramics reveals that the cavity volume contributes only to the strain in the direction parallel to the tensile stress regardless of the shape and orientation of cavities. Creep asymmetry results from the fact that cavitation preferentially contributes to axial tensile strain while the strain observed under the same conditions in compression is produced only by volume‐conserving mechanisms. The contribution of cavitational strain in the axial tensile strain is equal to the volume fraction of cavities and proportional to the difference between tensile and compressive strains in the axial direction. The density change method and a newly proposed method based on the difference in the axial strains were used for separating the cavitational from the true tensile strain in self‐reinforced silicon nitride. Both methods consistently revealed more than 90% contribution of cavitation to the total tensile strain. Cavitation is concluded to be the dominant mechanism of tensile creep deformation in vitreous bonded ceramics because the reported volume fractions of cavities during their deformation are usually in the range of 70–90% of tensile strain.