Fracture

What’s new in fracture? A new book is out!

Indentation Fracture: Strength and Toughness for Brittle Materials Design

A comprehensive reference with demonstrations of advanced indentation fracture techniques in practical applications to enable better design and more efficient manufacturing

Indentation Fracture describes and illustrates advanced applications of indentation fracture in evaluating strength, toughness, and related properties of brittle materials. The book enables better design, manufacture, performance, and reliability of brittle materials as elements in structural components. Emphasizing the practical applications of indentation fracture techniques, especially those of indentation-strength, the book builds on a development of indentation fracture mechanics to demonstrate clear quantitative comparisons and rankings of material fracture behavior, including the behavior of toughened materials.

The book includes several case studies linking indentation fracture analyses and measurements to other phenomena including fragmentation cracking, edge chipping and dicing damage, scratching and the Mohs scale, and semiconductor grinding damage. Each case study highlights a different aspect of controlled flaw fracture measurements.

Published by WILEY in collaboration with the American Ceramic Society.

ISBN: 978-1394207220, February 2025, 386 Pages.

The first book:

Particle Strengths: Extreme Value Distributions in Fracture

A holistic and straightforward analysis framework for understanding particle strength distributions

A thorough exploration of the science and related engineering of fracture strength distributions of single particles tested in diametral compression. Explains particle strengths in the broader context of material strengths to permit readers to design with particles in systems in which mechanical properties are crucial to application, manufacturing, and handling.

Particle Strengths compiles published data on particle strengths into a common format that includes over 140 materials systems and over 270 published strength distributions derived from over 13000 individual particle strength measurements. It offers physically consistent descriptions of strength behavior, including the strength threshold, using simple polynomial distribution functions that are easily implemented.

Published by WILEY in collaboration with the American Ceramic Society.

ISBN: 978-1-119-85093-9, February 2023, 416 Pages.