New Technology for Increasing Through-Life Reliability of Ceramics Components Using Self-Crack-Healing Ability

<table class="table-group" width="800px"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><img alt="937312.fig.003a" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/jpt/volume-2013/937312/figures/937312.fig.003a.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(a) </b>Before crack healing</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><img alt="937312.fig.003b" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/jpt/volume-2013/937312/figures/937312.fig.003b.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(b) </b>After crack healing</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<table>Schematic illustration of crack-healing mechanism.</table>

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Figure 3: New Technology for Increasing Through-Life Reliability of Ceramics Components Using Self-Crack-Healing Ability 