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X-ray Examination of Fracture Surfaces of Silicon Nitride Ceramics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Zenjiro Yajima
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, 7-1 Oogigaoka, Nonoichi, Kanazawa 921, Japan
Yukio Hirose
Affiliation:
Department of Material Science, Kanazawa University 1-1 Marunouchi, Kanazawa 920, Japan
Keisuke Tanaka
Affiliation:
Department of Engineering Science, Kyoto University Yoshida-hommachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606, Japan
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The residual stress left on the fracture surface is one of the important parameters in X-ray fractography. It has been used to analyze fracture mechanisms in fracture toughness and fatigue tests especially of iron and steels.

In the present paper, X-ray fractography was applied to the brittle fracture surface of a silicon nitride ceramics. The first part deals with the determination of the stress constant for diffraction from Si3N4(411) plane by Cr-Kα radiation. The second part describes the effect of the notch-tip radius on the fracture toughness value. In the last part, the plastic zone depth was determined from the residual stress destribution beneath the fracture surface.

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Research Article
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1989

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