The 8th International Symposium on fracture mechanics of ceramics was held in on the campus of the University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA, on February 25-28, 2003. With the natural maturing of the fields of structural ceramics, this symposium focused on nano-scale materials, composites, thin films and coatings as well as glass. The symposium also addressed new issues on fundamentals of fracture mechanics and contact mechanics, and a session on reliability and standardization.
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Contact Mechanics. - Atomic Force Microscopy at Ultrasonic Frequencies. - Indentation Size Effect on the Hardness of Zirconia Polycrystals. - Indentation Fracture, Acoustic Emission and Modelling of the Mechanical Properties of Thin Ceramic Coatings. - Nanoindentation, Nanoscratch and Nanoimpact Testing of Silicon-Based Materials with Nanostructured Surfaces. - Microstructural Control of Indentation Crack Extension under Externally Applied Stress. - Instrumented Hardness Test on Alumina Ceramics and Single Crystal with Spherical Indenter. - Glass. - Controlling the Fragmentation Behavior of Stressed Glass. - Elasto-Plastic Behavior of Glassy Carbon and Silica Glass by Nano-Indentation with Spherical Tipped Indenter. - Scratch Test for Evaluation of Surface Damage in Glass. - Shear Driven Damage and Internal Friction in Indentation Loading of a Glass-Ceramic. - Indentation and Scratching of Glass: Load, Composition and Temperature Effects. - Effects of Tin on the Physical Properties and Crack Growth in Soda-Lime-Silica Float Glass. - Indentation Size Effect for Glasses: Yes, There is a Fracture Contribution. - Fracture of Nano-Scale Materials. - Slow Crack Propagation in Ceramics at the Nano- and Micro-Scale: Effect of the Microstructure. - Toughening and Strengthening Mechanisms in Nanocomposites Based on Dislocation Activity. - Composites. - Creep Behavior and Mechanism for CMCs with Continuous Ceramic Fibers. - Strain Accumulation and Damage Evolution During Creep of SiCf/SiC Composites. - Modelling Multilayer Damage in Cross-ply Ceramic Matrix Composites. - Quantification of Toughness Increase Due to Metal Particles in Glass Matrix Composites. - Fracture Resistance of Hybrid Glass Matrix Composite and Its Degradation Due to Thermal Ageing and Thermal Shock. - Creep Investigation of SiCf-SiBC Composites. - Fracture Toughness of BaTiO3-MgO Composites Sintered by Spark Plasma Sintering. - Fracture Toughness of BaTiO3 and BaTiO3-Al2O3 Composite under Electric Field. - Room Temperature Post-Fracture Tensile (PFT) Study of Two Fiber-Reinforced Ceramic Matrix Composites with a Strong Fiber/Matrix Interface. - A FE Model of Carbon/Carbon Composite Fracture. - Fracture Fundamentals. - Tailoring the Composition of Self-Reinforced Silicon Nitride Ceramics to Enhance Mechanical Behavior. - Nonlinear Fracture of a Polycrystalline Graphite Size-Effect Law and Irwin s Similarity. - Fragmentation of Ceramics in Rapid Expansion Mode. - Experimental Approach to Microfracture Process of Ceramics under Thermal Shock. - Finite Element Analysis of Crack-Path Selection in a Brick and Mortar Structure. - Investigation of Crack Growth Process in Dense Hydroxyapatite Using the Double Torsion Method. - Crack Propagation Behavior of Alumina with Different Grain Sizes under Static and Cyclic Fatigue. - Effects of Pore/Grain-Size Interaction and Porosity on the Fracture of Electroceramics. - Fracture of Coatings. - Fracture Behaviour of Plasma Sprayed Thermal Barrier Coatings. - Particle Impact Damage and Point Load-Induced Fracture Behavior in Zirconia Plasma Spray Coating Film. - Model I, Mode II, and Mixed-Mode Fracture of Plasma-Sprayed Thermal Barrier Coatings at Ambient and Elevated Temperatures. - Ferroelectric Materials. - Modeling of Fracture in Ferroelastic Ceramics. - Strength and Reliability of Lead Zirconate Titanate Ceramics. - Reliability Prediction, Standardization and Design. - Standard Reference Material 2100: Fracture Toughness of Ceramics. - Measuring the Real Fracture Toughness of Ceramics: ASTM C 1421. - Predicting the Reliability of Brittle Material Structures Subjected toTransient Proof Test and Service Loading. - Estimation and Simulation of Slow Crack Growth Parameters from Constant Stress Rate Data. - On Integrity of Flexible Displays. - Fracture of Conductive Cracks in Poled and Depoled PZT-4 Ceramics. - Increasing Resistance to Low Temperature Ageing Degradation of Y-TZP by Surface Modification.
