Morphology of subsurface cracks in glass-ceramics induced by Vickers indentation observed by synchrotron X-ray

Gaku Okuma1, Kei Maeda2, Satoshi Yoshida3

  • 1Research Center for Structural Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0047, Japan. OKUMA.Gaku@nims.go.jp.

Scientific Reports
|April 28, 2022
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