Research Projects
Relationships between fabrication, microstructure and the properties of brittle materials; including:
- Microcracking in ceramics
- Reliability of ceramics in structural design
- Failure analysis
- Micromechanical theory
- Fabrication and evaluation of transformation-toughened ceramics
- Surface stresses
- Toughening mechanisms
- Indentation and fatigue of glasses
- Mechanical behavior of porous ceramics