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Stabilized zirconia ceramics can undergo a stress-induced tetragonal-to-monoclinic phase transformation. This way, a transformation zone with compressive stresses develops around crack tips, leading to an increase in fracture toughness. The increase in fracture toughness depends on the size of the transformation zone. Therefore, the ability to compute the phase transformation zone at a crack tip is crucial to determine the transformation toughening due to phase transformation. In the case of subcritical phase transformation, the crack tip phase transformation zone has been calculated using the finite element method. In some zirconia ceramics, like ceria-stabilized TZP zirconia ceramics, an autocatalytic phase transformation takes place, leading to large, elongated transformation zones. As this supercritical phase transformation cannot be computed with finite elements, several methods for investigating supercritical phase transformation have been developed. In this paper, a method based on the weight function method will be described.
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Rauchs, G., Munz, D., Fett, T. (2002). Calculation of Crack Tip Phase Transformation Zones in TZP with the Weight Function Method. In: Bradt, R.C., Munz, D., Sakai, M., Shevchenko, V.Y., White, K. (eds) Fracture Mechanics of Ceramics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4019-6_1
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