Abstract
Both at room temperature and above the Curie temperature, Weibull plots for the mechanical and dielectric strengths of BaTiO3 thick films sintered 1300° C to 1400° C showed good a correlation. The present results indicate that the microstructure plays a similar role in both mechanical and dielectric failures and firmly suggest that the fracture origins in both failures are analogous, possibly surface flaws associated with grain size. Specimens sintered at 1450° C showed a bend in the Weibull distribution for mechanical strength. This bimodal Weibull distribution was explained by the assumption that the geometric relation between the ratio of grain sizes to specimen thickness and stress gradient under a three-point bending condition affects the effective tensile stress of the tips of surface flaws.
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Kishimoto, A., Koumoto, K. & Yanagida, H. Mechanical and dielectric failure of BaTiO3 ceramics. J Mater Sci 24, 698–702 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01107462
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