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Fabrication Reliability of Ceramics: Controlling Flaw Populations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

F.F. Lange
F.F. Lange*
Affiliation:
Structural CeramicsRockwell Science Center, 1049 Camino Dos Rios, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
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Abstract

The major hindrance in using structural ceramics in well defined engineering applications is their lack of reliability caused by uncontrolled flaw populations introduced during fabrication. Mechanical reliability is thus a matter of fabrication reliability. The strengthening that can be achieved by either eliminating or reducing the size of flaw populations through changing either processing or microstructure will be reviewed.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 60: Symposium L – Defect Properties and Processing of High-Technology Nonmetallic Materials , 1985 , 143
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1986

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