Indentation Fracture - Robert F. Cook

Indentation Fracture

Strength and Toughness of Brittle Materials in Design

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Buch | Hardcover
400 Seiten
2025
Sybex Inc.,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-394-20720-6 (ISBN)
165,85 inkl. MwSt
A comprehensive reference with demonstrations of advanced indentation fracture techniques in practical applications to enable better design and more efficient manufacturing

Indentation Fracture describes and illustrates advanced applications of indentation fracture in evaluating strength, toughness, and related properties of brittle materials. The book enables better design, manufacture, performance, and reliability of brittle materials as elements in structural components. Emphasizing the practical applications of indentation fracture techniques, especially those of indentation-strength, the book builds on a development of indentation fracture mechanics to demonstrate clear quantitative comparisons and rankings of material fracture behavior, including the behavior of toughened materials.

The book includes several case studies linking indentation fracture analyses and measurements to other phenomena including fragmentation cracking, edge chipping and dicing damage, scratching and the Mohs scale, and semiconductor grinding damage. Each case study highlights a different aspect of controlled flaw fracture measurements.

The book enables readers to increase the utilization of glasses, ceramics, semiconductors, and similar brittle materials in load-bearing applications by demonstrating experimental indentation techniques to better characterize fracture. A primary focus of the book is demonstration of controlled flaw indentation-strength measurements.

Written by an independent scientist with significant research contributions to the field, Indentation Fracture explores a range of topics including:



Brittle fracture fundamentals, discussing equilibrium fractures on uniform and localized loading leading to the Griffith and Roesler equations
Indentation strength variation, covering the effects of contact angle, spherical and flat punch contacts, and contacts in stressed and layered components
Toughened materials strength observations in alumina, silicon nitride, glass ceramics, ferroelastics, and zirconia
Strengths of silicon devices determined by wafer backgrinding, covering linear flaws in silicon, including single and multiple scratches, as well as linear, general, controlled, and grinding flaws

Indentation Fracture is an essential reference on the subject for engineers across disciplines, nanotechnologists, geophysicists, and environmental scientists, along with graduate students in materials science and related programs of study.

Robert F. Cook, PhD, is a former NIST Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, and an independent scientist. He was a 2008 recipient of a U.S. Department of Commerce Silver Medal for Scientific/Engineering Achievement and is the author of over 200 peer-reviewed publications, 16 patents, and the book Particle Strengths.

Preface xiii 

Abbreviations and Symbols xv 

1 Brittle Fracture Fundamentals 1 

1.1 Brittle Components and Materials 1 

1.1.1 Components 2 

1.1.2 Materials 3 

1.2 Transformations on Brittle Fracture 4 

1.2.1 Observations 4 

1.2.2 Energy Balance 6 

1.3 Equilibrium Fracture on Uniform Loading 7 

1.3.1 Work and Elastic Energy 7 

1.3.2 Mechanical Energy and Surface Energy 8 

1.3.3 The Griffith Equation 9 

1.3.4 Configurational Forces: G and R 12 

1.4 Equilibrium Fracture on Localized Loading 13 

1.4.1 Mechanical Energy 13 

1.4.2 The Roesler Equation 13 

1.5 Stress-Intensity Factor and Toughness 17 

1.6 Nonequilibrium Fracture 20 

1.6.1 Unstable Adiabatic Fracture 20 

1.6.2 Stable Isothermal Fracture 22 

1.7 Fracture by Spatially Varying Loading 26 

1.7.1 Stress-Intensity Factor for Fracture at an Inclusion 26 

1.7.2 Crack Initiation 28 

1.8 Summary 31 

References 33 

2 Indentation Cracking Behavior 37 

2.1 Sharp Indentation of Brittle Materials 37 

2.1.1 Observations: Morphology 37 

2.1.2 Observations: Materials 41 

2.1.3 Residual Stress Field Model 44 

2.2 Indenter Shape Effects 47 

2.3 Material Effects 53 

2.4 Initiation 57 

2.5 Summary and Discussion 61 

References 63 

3 Indentation Strengths: Invariant Toughness Materials 67 

3.1 Indentation Strength of Brittle Materials 67 

3.1.1 Historical Context 67 

3.1.2 Experimental Methodology 68 

3.2 Fracture Mechanics of Indentation Strength 70 

3.2.1 Ideal Indentations 70 

3.2.2 Precursor Crack Extension 74 

3.2.3 Generalized Analysis 77 

3.3 Indentation Strength Variations 79 

3.3.1 Contact Angle 79 

3.3.2 Spherical, Rounded, and Flat Punch Contacts 80 

3.3.3 Lateral Cracked Contacts 87 

3.3.4 Impacts 93 

3.3.5 Contacts in Stressed and Layered Components 96 

3.3.6 Uncracked Contacts 104 

3.4 Indentation Strength Observations 108 

3.4.1 Contact Angle Effects 108 

3.4.2 Contact Radius Effects 110 

3.4.3 Lateral Crack Effects 112 

3.4.4 Impact Energy Effects 114 

3.4.5 Surface Stress Effects 119 

3.4.6 Subthreshold Effects 126 

3.5 Summary and Discussion 131 

References 132 

4 Indentation Strengths: Toughened Materials 141 

4.1 Introduction 141 

4.2 Microstructural Toughening in Brittle Materials 142 

4.2.1 Thermodynamics and the Energy Framework 142 

4.2.2 Mechanics and the Stress Framework 143 

4.2.3 Crack Wake Toughening: Overview 144 

4.2.4 Crack Wake Toughening: Analysis 149 

4.3 Toughened Materials Strength Analyses 150 

4.4 Toughened Materials Strength Observations 153 

4.4.1 Alumina 153 

4.4.2 Silicon Nitride 161 

4.4.3 Glass-Ceramics 163 

4.4.4 Ferroelastics 165 

4.4.5 Alumina Composites 168 

4.4.6 Zirconia 172 

4.4.7 Alumina Impact 177 

4.5 Summary and Discussion 180 

References 182 

5 Indentation Strengths: Toughness Estimation 187 

5.1 Introduction 187 

5.2 Methods 188 

5.2.1 Analysis 188 

5.2.2 Experiment 190 

5.3 Results 192 

5.3.1 Relation to Conventional Method 192 

5.3.2 Refinement of Modified Technique 193 

5.3.3 Application of Modified Technique 196 

5.4 Discussion 198 

5.5 Conclusions 200 

References 200 

6 Indentation Strengths: Reactive Environments 203 

6.1 Introduction 203 

6.1.1 Background Concepts 203 

6.1.2 Background Observations 205 

6.2 Reactive Strength and Lifetime Analyses 210 

6.2.1 Empirical Crack Velocity: Griffith Flaws 210 

6.2.2 Empirical Crack Velocity: Indentation Flaws 212 

6.2.3 Effect of Lateral Cracks and Microstructure 214 

6.2.4 Thermally Activated Crack Velocity 216 

6.3 Reactive Strengths Observations 220 

6.3.1 Single Contact Loads 220 

6.3.2 Multiple Contact Loads 221 

6.3.3 Predictions 223 

6.3.4 Surface Stress Effects 227 

6.3.5 Probabilistic Methods 231 

6.4 Summary and Discussion 233 

References 236 

7 Dynamic Fragmentation Patterns in Flexed Ceramic Disks 241 

7.1 Introduction 241 

7.2 Number of Fragments 243 

7.3 Distribution of Fragment Sizes 248 

7.4 Crack Branching Distances 251 

7.5 Application Examples 254 

7.5.1 Si Die Failure 255 

7.5.2 Ceramic Microstructure Development 256 

7.5.3 Branching Radius Variation 256 

7.6 Conclusions 257 

References 258 

8 Edge Chipping at Small Scales and Strengths of Diced Components 263 

8.1 Introduction 263 

8.2 Sharp Contact Cracking at Edges 265 

8.2.1 Contact Morphology 265 

8.2.2 Crack Lengths 266 

8.2.3 Chipping Threshold 269 

8.3 Edge Chip Size Variation 270 

8.4 Edge Chip Strength Variation 273 

8.4.1 Strength Measurements 273 

8.4.2 Strength Analysis and Prediction 274 

8.5 Summary 277 

References 278 

9 Scratches and Lateral Cracking at Linear Sharp Contacts 279 

9.1 Introduction 279 

9.2 Analysis 282 

9.2.1 Contact Deformation 283 

9.2.2 Lateral Cracking 285 

9.3 Results 288 

9.3.1 Point Contacts 288 

9.3.2 Dragged and Rolled Contacts 290 

9.4 Mohs Scale Minerals 293 

9.5 Summary and Discussion 298 

References 300 

10 Strengths of Silicon Devices Determined by Wafer Backgrinding 303 

10.1 Introduction 303 

10.1.1 Semiconductor Device Fabrication 303 

10.1.2 Wafer Backgrinding and Die Strength 304 

10.2 Linear Flaws in Si 306 

10.2.1 Single Scratches 306 

10.2.2 Multiple Striations 307 

10.3 Strength of Si 309 

10.3.1 Indentation Fracture Mechanics—Linear Contact Flaws 309 

10.3.2 Indentation Fracture Mechanics—General Contact Flaws 313 

10.3.3 Observations—Controlled Flaws 316 

10.3.4 Observations—Grinding Flaws 318 

10.4 Grinding Controlled Strength Model 322 

10.4.1 Analysis 322 

10.4.2 Results 323 

10.5 Summary 327 

References 328 

11 Strength and Toughness of Cordierite Glass-Ceramic Composites 331 

11.1 Introduction 331 

11.2 Experimental Methods 332 

11.2.1 Materials 332 

11.2.2 Contact Properties 334 

11.2.3 Toughness 338 

11.2.4 Strength 338 

11.3 Analysis Methods 339 

11.3.1 Toughness Variation 339 

11.3.2 Indentation Strength Variation 340 

11.3.3 Intrinsic Strength Variation 340 

11.4 Results 341 

11.4.1 Toughness Measurements 341 

11.4.2 Strength Measurements 343 

11.5 Conclusions 345 

References 345 

Appendix 347 

12 Crack Propagation in Toughened Materials 351 

12.1 Introduction 351 

12.2 Indentation Crack Extension Analyses 353 

12.2.1 Residual Field Variation 353 

12.2.2 Similar Driving and Resistance Fields 354 

12.2.3 Dissimilar Driving and Resistance Fields 355 

12.2.4 Piecewise Continuous Resistance Field 356 

12.3 Crack Propagation Observations 359 

12.3.1 Polycrystalline Alumina 359 

12.3.2 Phase-Transforming Zirconia 361 

12.3.3 Ion-Exchanged Glass 364 

12.4 Summary 366 

References 367 

13 Summary and Future 369 

13.1 Introduction 369 

13.2 Materials Comparisons 370 

13.2.1 Fracture in Inert Environments 370 

13.2.2 Fracture in Reactive Environments: Master Maps 373 

13.3 Future Topics 375 

13.3.1 Thermal Shock 375 

13.3.2 Concurrent Flaw Distributions 377 

13.3.3 Indentation Measurements 378 

References 379 

Index 381

Erscheint lt. Verlag 14.5.2025
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Technik Maschinenbau
ISBN-10 1-394-20720-4 / 1394207204
ISBN-13 978-1-394-20720-6 / 9781394207206
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