Microstructural Effects on Fracture

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“The strength of bone china and hard porcelain,” R.F. Cook. Zenodo (2025).

Key Works

• “Microstructure-Strength Properties in Ceramics: I-Effect of Crack Size on Toughness,” R.F. Cook, B.R. Lawn and C.J. Fairbanks, J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 68 (1985) 604-615.
• “Microstructure-Strength Properties in Ceramics: II-Fatigue Relations,” R.F. Cook, B.R. Lawn and C.J. Fairbanks, J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 68 (1985) 616-623.

Topical Works

• “Toughening of a Cordierite Glass-Ceramic by Compressive Surface Layers,” R.F. Cook, J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 88 (2005) 2798-2808.
• “The effects of inter-surface cohesive forces on linear and penny-shaped cracks,” J. Thurn and R.F. Cook, International J. Fracture 119 (2003) 103-124.
• (Invited) “Application of a physically-consistent theory of brittle fracture,” J. Thurn and R.F. Cook, Phil. Mag. A 82 (2002) 3151-3162.
• “Alternative Length Scales for Polycrystalline Materials – I. Microstructure Evolution,” C.S. Nichols, R.F. Cook, D.R. Clarke, and D.A. Smith, Acta metall. 39 (1991) 1657-1665.
• “Alternative Length Scales for Polycrystalline Materials – II. Cluster Morphology,” C.S. Nichols, R.F. Cook, D.R. Clarke, and D.A. Smith, Acta metall. 39 (1991) 1667-1675.
• “Effective-Medium Theory for the Fracture of Fractal Porous Media,” R.F. Cook, Phys. Rev. B, 39 (1989) 2811-2814.
• “Stick-Slip During Fibre Pull-Out,” R.F. Cook, M.D. Thouless, D.R. Clarke, and M.C. Kroll, Scripta metall. 23 (1989) 1725-1730.
• “The Effect of Grain Size on Microstructure and Stress Relaxation in Polycrystalline YBa₂Cu₃O_δ, T.M. Shaw, S.L. Shinde, D. Dimos, R.F. Cook, P.R. Duncombe and C. Kroll, J. Mat. Res. 4 (1989) 248-256.
• “Fracture Stability, R-Curves and Strength Variability,” R.F. Cook and D.R. Clarke, Acta metall. 36 (1988) 555-562.
• “Crack Resistance By Interfacial Bridging: Its Role in Determining Strength Characteristics,” R.F. Cook, C. J. Fairbanks, B.R. Lawn and Y.-W. Mai, J. Mat. Res. 2 (1987) 345-356.
• “Microstructural Effects on Grinding of Alumina and Glass Ceramics,” D.B. Marshall, B.R. Lawn and R.F. Cook, J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 70 (1987) C139-C140.“Effect of Microstructure on Reliability Predictions for Glass-Ceramics,” R.F. Cook, S.W. Freiman and T.L. Baker, Mater. Sci. Eng. 77 (1986) 199-212.
• “Fracture of Ferroelectric Ceramics,” R.F. Cook, S.W. Freiman, B.R. Lawn and R.C. Pohanka, Ferroelectrics 50 (1983) 267-272.
• Reply to “Comment on ‘Role of Grain Size in the Strength and R-Curve Properties of Alumina’,” B.R. Lawn, L.M. Braun, S.J. Bennison, and R.F. Cook, J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 76 (1993) 1900-1901.
• “Adhesion between Immiscible Polymers Correlated with Interfacial Entanglements,” P.J. Cole, R.F. Cook and C.W. Macosko, Macromolecules 36 (2003) 2808-2815.
• “Mechanical Properties of Block Copolymer Vesicle and Micelle Modified Epoxies,” J.M. Dean, R.B. Grubbs, W. Saad, R.F. Cook and F.S. Bates, J. Polym. Sci., Part B: Polym. Phys. 41 (2003) 2444-2456.