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

<table>Apparent fracture toughness at room temperature as a function of heat-treatment temperature. Apparent fracture toughness was considerably increased by shot peening.</table>

Journal of Powder Technology

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Figure 14: New Technology for Increasing Through-Life Reliability of Ceramics Components Using Self-Crack-Healing Ability 