Fracture Mechanics of Ceramics: Composites, R-Curve Behavior, and Fatigue [Paperback]

These volumes, 9 and 10, of Fracture Mechanics of Ceramics constitute the proceedings of an international symposium on the fracture mechanics of ceramic materials held at the Japan Fine Ceramics Center, Nagoya, Japan on July 15, 16, 17, 1991. These proceedings constitute the fifth pair of volumes of a continuing series of conferences. Volumes 1 and 2 were from the 1973 symposium, volumes 3 and 4 from a 1977 symposium, and volumes 5 and 6 from a 1981 symposium all of which were held at The Pennsylvania State University. Volumes 7 and 8 are from the 1985 symposium which was held at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The theme ofthis conference, as for the previous four, focused on the mechanical behavior ofceramic materials in terms of the characteristics of cracks, particularly the roles which they assume in the fracture processes and mechanisms. The 82 contributed papers by over 150 authors and co-authors represent the current state of that field. They address many of the theoretical and practical problems ofinterest to those scientists and engineers concerned with brittle fracture.Fracture Mechanics and Mechanism of Ceramic Composites.- Effects of Residual Stress and Frictional Sliding on R-Curve Behavior in Fiber-Reinforced Ceramics.- A Crack Growth Resistance Model for Fiber-Reinforced Ceramic Materials.- On The Size Effect in Fracture of Ceramic-Ceramic Composite Materials.- Matrix Cracking and Fiber Bridging of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Carbon Matrix Composites.- Fiber Pullout and Fracture Energy of C-fiber/C-matrix Composites.- The Crack Growth Resistance of SiC-SiC Ceramic Composite Materials.- Effects of Temperature and Oxidation of The Mechanical Behavior of Uncoated SiC-SiC Composite Materials.- Fracture Toughness of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Ceramic Composites.- Dynamic Fracture Responses of Al2O3, Si3N4 and SiCw/Al2O3.- Fracture Toughening Mechanisms in The SiCw/Al2O3 Composite System.- Microstructures and Fracture Behaviors at High Teml3"