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The stress concentrations that occur at inclusions due to thermal expansion and elastic modulus mismatch are discussed and the stress intensity factors at interface cracks that result from these stresses are calculated. It is shown that conservative failure prediction based on an equivalence between inclusion size and crack size is usually acceptable if the shear modulusμ or thermal expansion coefficientα for the inclusion is larger than the matrix values. If, however,μ andα are smaller for the inclusion than the matrix, extensive cracking can develop at the inclusions which may lead to premature failure. For this case the only effective methods for failure prediction are techniques which give directly the maximum stress intensity factor, i.e., proof testing and/or acoustic emission.
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Evans, A.G. The role of inclusions in the fracture of ceramic materials. J Mater Sci 9, 1145–1152 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00552831
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