Fracture toughness of a zirconia engineering ceramic and the effects thereon of surface processing with fibre laser radiation

Vickers hardness indentation tests were employed to investigate the near-surface changes in the hardness of a fibre laser-treated and an as-received ZrO2 engineering ceramic. Indents were created using 5, 20, and 30 kg loads to obtain the hardness. Optical microscopy, white-light interferometry, and...

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Main Authors:	Pratik P. Shukla, Jonathan Lawrence, Houzheng Wu
Format:	Default Article
Published:	2010
Subjects:	Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified Fracture toughness (K1c) Vickers indentation technique ZrO2 engineering ceramics Mechanical Engineering not elsewhere classified Mechanical Engineering
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/2134/7667
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