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(Text question 12.61) To appreciate the relative toughness of (i)Traditional cer

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(Text question 12.61) To appreciate the relative toughness of (i)Traditional ceramics, (ii) high-toughness, unreinforced (iii)Ceramic matrix composites, plot (in Excel) the breaking stressversus flaw size, a, for a) silicon carbide, (b) partiallystabilized zirconia, and (c) silicon carbide reinforce with SiCfibers. Use the following equation
K Y a IC f ? *? * ? *
Take Y=1. The range for a is between 1 to 100 microns on alogarithmic scale. The values for KIC can be found in Table 8.3 andin Table 12.7.

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