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Creep of ceramics

Part 2 An examination of flow mechanisms

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This review analyses a wide range of experimental data on the creep of ceramic materials and reveals many similarities with the creep of metals. It is demonstrated that there are two important differences in the creep behaviour of ceramics: (1) there is an enhanced role of diffusion creep, and (2) in the power-law regime, ceramics divide into two categories with stress exponents of ∼ 5 and ∼ 3, respectively. It is concluded that the behaviour with an exponent of ∼ 5 represents fully ductile behaviour as in f cc metals, whereas the behaviour with an exponent of ∼ 3 is due to dislocation climb from Bardeen-Herring sources under conditions where there is either a lack of five independent slip systems or, if five independent slip systems are available, a lack of interpenetration of these systems.

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Cannon, W.R., Langdon, T.G. Creep of ceramics. J Mater Sci 23, 1–20 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01174028

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