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Crack Tip Shielding

Crack Tip Shielding is a fracture mechanics phenomenon in which localized microstructural interactions ahead of a propagating crack reduce the effective stress intensity at the crack tip, thereby impeding crack growth in brittle ceramic materials.

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Mechanisms of fatigue crack propagation in metals, ceramics and composites: Role of crack tip shielding

Robert O. Ritchie · Materials Science and Engineering A · 1988 · 860 citations

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Nanoscale origins of the damage tolerance of the high-entropy alloy CrMnFeCoNi

Zijiao Zhang, Min Mao, Jiangwei Wang et al. · Nature Communications · 2015 · 828 citations · Full text

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Cleavage, dislocation emission, and shielding for cracks under general loading

I.-H. Lin, R. Thomson · Acta Metallurgica · 1986 · 446 citations

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Crack tip shielding by micro-cracking in brittle solids

John W. Hutchinson · Acta Metallurgica · 1987 · 413 citations

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On the damage tolerance of 3-D printed Mg-Ti interpenetrating-phase composites with bioinspired architectures

Mingyang Zhang, Ning Zhao, Qin Yu et al. · Nature Communications · 2022 · 258 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. RO
    Robert O. Ritchie

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    11 publications · 2.6K citations

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  2. MJ
    M.N. James

    University of Plymouth, United Kingdom

    6 publications · 264 citations

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  3. MT
    Masaki Tanaka

    Kyushu University, Japan

    5 publications · 149 citations

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  4. DB
    David B. Marshall

    Rockwell Automation (United States), United States

    5 publications · 217 citations

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  5. KH
    Kenji Higashida

    Kyushu University, Japan

    5 publications · 94 citations

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Institutions

172

  1. American Ceramic Society

    Westerville, United States

    14 h-index

    32 publications

    1.9K citations

  2. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    10 h-index

    17 publications

    3.2K citations

  3. Kyushu University

    Fukuoka, Japan

    7 h-index

    20 publications

    498 citations

  4. University of Plymouth

    Plymouth, United Kingdom

    6 h-index

    12 publications

    581 citations

  5. Brown University

    Providence, United States

    5 h-index

    13 publications

    916 citations

  6. Division of Materials Science and Engineering

    Canberra, Australia

    5 h-index

    17 publications

    301 citations

  7. Rockwell Automation (United States)

    Milwaukee, United States

    5 h-index

    13 publications

    491 citations

  8. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    Berkeley, United States

    5 h-index

    7 publications

    3K citations

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  1. Journal of the American Ceramic Society

    16 publications · 827 citations

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  3. International Journal of Fracture

    8 publications · 237 citations

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  4. Engineering Fracture Mechanics

    5 publications · 287 citations

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  5. Nature Communications

    5 publications · 1.3K citations

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