Grain Dependence of Microcracking, Crack Propagation Despite the common assumption and observations that pores and microcracks have independent effects on behav. in terms of their size and distance ahead of the main crack in graphite, appear more extreme, raising the question of the relative roles of the extreme anisotropy and of pores in graphites that are not adequately understood. However, the extent of the microcrack occurrence, e.g. Microcracks as a factor in forming bridges are logical, as noted earlier, but their observed formation at or ahead of the main crack tip is still inconsistent with the earlier, abandoned, concept of microcrack zones ahead of, but well above and below, the main crack being the primary source of toughening. Graphite results, while more extreme in some aspects, are similar overall to other ceramic bridging results, adding to the correlation of bridging, microcracking, and TEA. These observations are supported by those on microcracking in graphites (102, 103, and Secs. They corroborated that the crack resistance/toughness effects arose primarily from the wake region via renotching Г la Knehans and Steinbrech. That microcracks formed considerably ahead of the main crack was indicated by reductions in crack resistance as the main crack tip approached but was still some distance from the specimen edge. These microcracks underwent partial closure around (often quite elongated, multigrain) bridges in the wake region. The latter were reported to show microcracks in both the wake region and ahead of the main crack within В± 60В° of the crack plane at about 60% of the failure load that were about 1вЂ“20 Вµm long, with some of them joining and growing to > 100 Вµm long. reported both microcracking and bridging in the crack wake region of an isotropic graphite (coke grain size 15 Вµm, 15% porosity, mean pore dia. Turning to limited data for a very anisotropic material, graphite, Sakai et al. reported that large grain fracture initiation limited strengths in their Si 3N 4.) m 1/2, 515 MPa strength and m = 19) to microcracking from excessively large grains.

However, they attributed toughness in their intermediate toughness bodies (8.8 MPa m 1/2, 690 MPa strength and m = 53) bodies.m 1/2, 600 MPa strength and Weibull modulus m of 25) and in their lowest toughness (8.5 MPa.concluded that crack bridging by elongated beta grains was the main source of their high toughness (10.3 MPa However, other observations indicate that bridging is not the whole story. It is widely accepted that bridging is the dominant or exclusive source of the substantially higher K IC values, e.g. However, it is also generally observed that effects of grain elongation become limited due to increasing fracture of more elongated grains. , and Okada and Hiroshi, with the latter also showing the expected accompaniment of environment-driven SCG (Sec. Larger, especially elongated ( ОІ) grains with substantial intergranular fracture, e.g.

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