Tough Alumina/Polymer Layered Composites with High Ceramic Content

Improved Fracture Behavior of Alumina Microstructural Composites with Highly Textured Compressive Layers

(2014) Yunfei Chang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY

Strong, tough and stiff bioinspired ceramics from brittle constituents

(2014) Florian Bouville et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Fracture Behavior of Layered Alumina Microstructural Composites with Highly Textured Layers

(2013) Robert Pavlacka et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY

Micro-structure and mechanical properties of the turtle carapace as a biological composite shield

(2012) Ben Achrai et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Towards High-Performance Bioinspired Composites

(2012) André R. Studart   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Automated Control of Stable Crack Growth for R-Curve Measurements in Brittle Materials

(2012) H. Jelitto et al.   EXPERIMENTAL MECHANICS

Experimental Crack Front Investigation of Unpoled Soft Lead Zirconate Titanate (PZT) Using the Single Edge V-Notched Beam (SEVNB) Method

(2012) H. Özcoban et al.   EXPERIMENTAL MECHANICS

Computer-Controlled Stable Crack Growth as a Reliable and Fast Method to Determine Subcritical Crack Growth

(2012) Hüseyin Özcoban et al.   JOURNAL OF TESTING AND EVALUATION

The effect of the interlayer on the ballistic performance of ceramic/composite armors: Experimental and numerical study

(2011) A. Tasdemirci et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF IMPACT ENGINEERING

The conflicts between strength and toughness

(2011) Robert O. Ritchie   NATURE MATERIALS

High failure resistance layered ceramics using crack bifurcation and interface delamination as reinforcement mechanisms

(2010) Raúl Bermejo et al.   ENGINEERING FRACTURE MECHANICS

R Curves from Compliance and Optical Crack-Length Measurements

(2010) Stefan Fünfschilling et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY

Influence of finite notch root radius and optically determined crack length on the measured fracture toughness of brittle materials

(2010) Hüseyin Özcoban et al.   JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN CERAMIC SOCIETY

New toughening concepts for ceramic composites from rigid natural materials

(2010) George Mayer   Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

On the Fracture Toughness of Advanced Materials

(2009) Maximilien E. Launey et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Alumina/Silicon Carbide Laminated Composites by Spark Plasma Sintering

(2009) Vincenzo M. Sglavo et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY

A novel biomimetic approach to the design of high-performance ceramic-metal composites

(2009) M. E. Launey et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Determination of the crack-tip toughness in silicon nitride ceramics

(2008) S. Fünfschilling et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE

Tough, Bio-Inspired Hybrid Materials

(2008) E. Munch et al.   SCIENCE

Biological materials: Structure and mechanical properties

(2007) Marc André Meyers et al.   PROGRESS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE