This is an advanced text for higher degree materials science students and researchers concerned with the strength of highly brittle covalent-ionic solids, principally ceramics. It is a reconstructed and greatly expanded edition of a book first published in 1975. The book presents a unified continuum, microstructural and atomistic treatment of modern day fracture mechanics from a materials perspective. Particular attention is directed to the basic elements of bonding and microstructure that govern the intrinsic toughness of ceramics. These elements hold the key to the future of ceramics as high-technology materials--to make brittle solids strong, we must first understand what makes them weak. The underlying theme of the book is the fundamental Griffith energy-balance concept of crack propagation. The early chapters develop fracture mechanics from the traditional continuum perspective, with attention to linear and nonlinear crack-tip fields, equilibrium and non-equilibrium crack states. It then describes the atomic structure of sharp cracks, the topical subject of crack-microstructure interactions in ceramics, with special focus on the concepts of crack-tip shielding and crack-resistance curves, and finally deals with indentation fracture, flaws and structural reliability.
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."..unified treatment renders the book very accessible and greatly helps the reader assemble the pieces...the text is very well supported by numerous pictures and diagrams and by a limited series of references which should assist interested readers to move beyond the introductory notions described in the book...highly recommended for any graduate student, engineer, or scientist who would like to gain a first but significiant view 'of the other side of the brittle fracture probem.'" Philippe Geubelle, Pageoph
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Originally published in 1975, this advanced text for higher degree materials science students and researchers concerned with the strength of highly brittle covalent-ionic solids, principally ceramics, has been thoroughly revised and expanded.
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Though not a giant one, Lawn's piercing thoughts into the essence of brittle fracture can be clearly read and transferred (especiaaly for those who have studied and indulged into fracture like me). From the beginning, Griffith's spirits are extracted from his classic papers and put as a corner stone through out the book. Unlike many other authors, the author apparently appreciates and must have digged deeply into Griffith's paper. The remaining chapters illustrate it in an enlightening way, i.e., the subjects are treated as concepts-faced, not a pile-ups of entangling "dislocations" (facts). At least for me, some concepts had firmly taken their roots in my mind after reading. Not the least, the references given guides one fracturing through the literature and aims at providing some classic papers in the field for further study. They really take effect! I am at least not missed in library.
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Most materials show a tendency to fracture when stressed beyond some critical level. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
inert strength data, monophase ceramics, crack velocity data, elastic enclave, crack energetics, subthreshold indentations, cohesion zone, indentation flaws, atomic sharpness, intrinsic surface energy, shielding zone, toughness increment, weak shielding, flaw tolerance, flaw statistics, dilation zone, theoretical cohesive strength, microstructural flaws, lattice trapping, trapping range, alumina data, sharp indenters, cone cracks, controlled flaws, penny crack Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Most materials show a tendency to fracture when stressed beyond some critical level. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
inert strength data, monophase ceramics, crack velocity data, elastic enclave, crack energetics, subthreshold indentations, cohesion zone, indentation flaws, atomic sharpness, intrinsic surface energy, shielding zone, toughness increment, weak shielding, flaw tolerance, flaw statistics, dilation zone, theoretical cohesive strength, microstructural flaws, lattice trapping, trapping range, alumina data, sharp indenters, cone cracks, controlled flaws, penny crack Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Fracture Mechanics of Ceramics by A. G. Evans on page 191, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Strength of Inorganic Glass (Nato Conference Series VI, Materials Science) by Charles R. Kurkjian on page 348, and Back Matter
- Elastic and Plastic Fracture by A.G. Atkins in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Advances in Fracture Research by Tex.) International Conference on Fracture 1989 (Houston in Back Matter
- Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon (Cambridge Solid State Science Series) by R. A. Street in Front Matter
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- Fracture Mechanics of Ceramics, Volume 13 - Crack-Microstructure Interaction, R-Curve Behavior, by R.C. Bradt on 8 pages
- Fracture Mechanics of Ceramics: Active Materials, Nanoscale Materials, Composites, Glass, and Fundamentals by R.C. Bradt on 4 pages
- Fractography of Glass by R.C. Bradt on 4 pages
- Fractography: Observing, Measuring and Interpreting Fracture Surface Topography by Derek Hull on 4 pages
- An Introduction to the Mechanical Properties of Ceramics (Cambridge Solid State Science Series) by David J. Green in Front Matter, page 284, and page 315
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