New Technology for Increasing Through-Life Reliability of Ceramics Components Using Self-Crack-Healing Ability
Figure 5
Crack path of Al2O3/SiC(p) ceramics: (a) precracked sample, crack initiated from precrack, and (b) crack-healed sample, crack initiated from outside the crack-healed zone, indicating that the crack-healed zone exhibited higher strength than that of the base material.
