Impact fragmentation of sapphire

Journal of Superhard Materials - Tập 37 - Trang 140-142 - 2015
P. V. Konevskii1, R. E. Brodskii1, L. A. Litvinov1
1Institute for Single Crystals, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Tóm tắt

Specimens of vacuum-annealed sapphire, toughened sapphire, and Gorilla glass have been subjected to impact fracture testing. The size of fragments of sapphire specimens is found to be 10 to 100 times that of glass specimens, with the impact energy being the same.

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