Fracture Mechanics of Ceramics

of Volume 5.- The Indentation Crack as a Model Surface Flaw.- Analysis of Water Impacts on Zinc Sulfide.- Interface Crack Extension with Friction.- Contact Damage and Residual Stresses Induced During Single Point Grinding of Various Ceramics.- Shear Flow and Fracture Beneath Sharp Indentations in Soda-lime Glass.- Impact Damage Resistance of Flat Glass/Cellular Glass Solar Mirror Experimental Panels.- Indentation Fracture Toughness of Brittle Materials for Palmquist Cracks.- Surface and Subsurface Fracture in Single Crystals of ?-SiC.- Deformation and Cracking During High Temperature Scratching of Some Brittle Materials.- Effect of Crystallites on Size of Flaws Introduced During Surface Damage in Glass-Ceramics.- Analytical and Experimental Evaluation of Biaxial Contact Stress.- Effects of Surface Conditions on Stress-Rate Dependence of Mechanical Strength of High Silica Glass.- A Probabilistic Framework for Structural Design.- Assessment of Reliability of Ceramic Materials.- A Crack as a Crystal Defect with Implications for the Fracture Resistance.- The Stress Corrosion Limit: Its Measurement and Implications.- Examination of the Tensile Strength of E-Glass Fiber in the Context of Slow Crack Growth.- Critical and Subcritical Crack Extension in Al2O3and SiC as Functions of Temperature, Environment and Loading Rate.- A Universal Materials Function for Subcritical Crack Extension.- Slow Crack Growth Studies in Silicon.- Electric Field Effects on Subcritical Crack Growth in PZT.- Fracture of Piezoelectric Materials.- Fracture Statistics of Multiple Flaw Distributions.- Examination of Size Effects in the Failure Prediction of Ceramic Material.- Effects of Oxidation on the Reliability of Silicon Nitride.- Improving the Reliability of Hot-Pressed Silicon Nitride.- Implication of Time Dependent and Environmental Response of Structural Ceramics in Life Estimating Procedures.- Microcracking Mechanisms in Ceramics.- Numerical Modeling of Microcracking in Two-Phase Ceramics.- Statistical Aspects of Grain Boundary Cracking in Ceramics and Rocks.- Microcrack Healing During the Temperature Cycling of Single Phase Ceramics.- Biaxial Stress State Effects on Strengths of Ceramics Failing from Pores.- Mode I Stress Intensity Factor Estimates for Various Configurations Involving Single and Multiple Cracked Spherical Voids.- A Microcracking Model for the Effect of Grain Size on Slow Crack Growth in Polycrystalline Al2O3.- Relationship Between Microcrack Zones and Toughness of Fine Grained Alumina and Coarse Grained Graphites.- Fracture Behavior of Glass Matrix/Glass Particle Composites.- The Role of Subcritical Tensile Microfracture Processes in Compression Failure of Ceramics.- Elastic Creep by Crack Growth During Residual Stress Relaxation in a Polycrystalline Aluminum Oxide.- Limitation and Challenges in Applying Fracture Mechanics to Ceramics.- Contributors.- Index to Volume 5.- Index to Volume.