Preface ix
Dedication: Roy W. Rice xi
In Memoriam: Janet B. Quinn xiii
A History of the Fractography of Glasses and Ceramics 1
George D. Quinn
The Effect of Defects and Materials Texture on the Fracture of Low-Pressure Injection Moulded Alumina Components 57
Tanja Lube, Roger Morrell, and Irina Kraleva
Single Edge V-Notch Fractography of Engineering Ceramics 65
Jasbir Singh Aujla and Kevin Kibble
Roughness of Silica Glass Sub-Critical Fracture Surfaces 77
Gael Pallares, Frédéric Lechenault, Matthieu George, Elisabeth Bouchaud, Cindy L. Rountree, and Matteo Ciccotti
Fractography in the Development of Ion-Exchanged Cover Glass 85
G.S. Glaesemann, T.M. Gross, J.F. Bayne, and J.J. Price
Crack Branching in Glass Interface Driven by Dynamic Loading 95
Hwun Park and Weinong Chen
A Strain Energy Release Rate Criterion for Formation of the Mirror/Mist Boundary, Depiction on the (G,R) vs. DeltaC Universal Energy Diagram 101
Richard C. Bradt
Scratch Damage in Ion-Exchanged Alkali Aluminosilicate Glass: Crack Evolution and the Dependence of Lateral Cracking Threshold on Contact Geometry 113
Timothy M. Gross
Fractography Lessons from Knapping 123
Are Tsirk
Failure and Damage Mechanisms in Ceramic Nanocomposites 133
Jan Dusza
Failure Analysis of Ceramic Laminates Using Quantitative Fractography and Fractal Geometry 149
J. J. Mecholsky, Jr.
Fractographic Analysis of Broken Ceramic Dental Restorations 161
George D. Quinn, Kathleen Hoffman, S. Scherrer, U. Lohbauer, G. Amberger M. Karl, and J.R. Kelly
Fractography of Ceramic Dental Implants 175
Stephan Hecht-Mijic
Modes of Failure of Bonding Interfaces in Dentistry 193
Alvaro Delia Bona, John J. Mecholsky Jr.
Qualitative and Quantitative Fractographic Analysis of All-Ceramic Fixed Partial Dentures 205
Marcsa Borba, Humberto N. Yoshimura, Jason A. Griggs, Paulo F. Cesar, and Alvaro Delia Bona
Intrinsic Strength, Damage and Failure 213
C.R. Kurkjian
The Notched Ball Test-Characterisation of Surface Defects and their Influence on Strength 225
Tanja Lube, Stefan Witschnig, Peter Supancic, Robert Danzer, and Oskar Schöppl
Analytical Model for Improved Residual Surface Stress Approximation 235
Roberto Dugnani and Zixiao Pan
Thermal Shock Behavior of Si3N4-Specimens-Influence of Annealing and Edges 245
Walter Harrer, Robert Danzer, and Karl Berroth
A Fracture Analysis of Gadolinium-Doped Ceria Ceramics to Improve Strength and Reliability 255
Kouichi Yasuda, Kazuhiro Uemura, and Tadashi Shiota
Triple Blind Fractography Study of Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia Thin-Film-Modified Porcelain 265
Robert L. Smith, Jeffrey Y. Thompson, Ryan N. Chan, Brian R. Stoner, Jeffrey R. Piascik, and John J. Mecholsky Jr.
Residual Failure Due to Incomplete Sintering of Vitreous China Plumbing Fixtures 273
David L. Ahearn and Fred Schmidt
Laminate Design Effects on the Fracture Patterns of Impact Resistance Glass Panels 281
J.L. Ladner, D.L. Ahearn, and R.C. Bradt
Application of Fractography in Pharmaceutical Industry 289
Florian Maurer
Using Replicas in Fractography of Glasses and Ceramics-Advantages and Pitfalls 299
James R. Varner
Author Index 30
