ISSN:
1551-2916
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
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Physics
Notes:
The relationships between cracking and mechanical twinning, and between ferroelectric polarization and mechanical twinning, in stoichiometric LiNbO3 were investigated in the present study. Three sets of mechanical twins crossed one another, and the crossed points of those twins provided preferred sites for the nucleation of cracks. Mechanical twins of LiNbO3 revealed a head-to-tail arrangement of ferroelectric polarization, and complicated polarization states were observed at the crossed points. Some possible mechanisms of crack nucleation and propagation are proposed in this paper.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1151-2916.1997.tb03174.x
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