Moisture assisted crack growth in ceramics

✍ Scribed by S. M. Wiederhorn

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1968
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 395 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1573-2673
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00188945

✦ Synopsis

A method is described to study subcritical crack growth in ceramic materials. Large, macroscopic size cracks were used and quantitative crack velocity measurements were made on glass and sapphire as a function of applied force, temperature and environment. The measured crack velocity was a complex function of stress and water vapor concentration in the environment and portions of the data could be adequately explained by the stress corrosion theory of Charles and Hillig.