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JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN CERAMIC SOCIETY
Volume 37, Issue 6, Pages 2521-2529Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2017.02.005
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Magnesia refractories; Spinel; DIC; Cohesive zone model; FPZ
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- Austrian Federal Government (Bundesministerium fur Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie)
- K2 MPPE project [A4.21]
- Austrian Federal Government (Bundesministerium fur Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft)
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In this paper, the formation of the fracture process zone (FPZ) of industrially produced magnesia spinel and magnesia refractories was analysed using digital image correlation (DIC). Compared to pure magnesia materials, the magnesia spinet materials exhibited a higher amount of microcracks, causing a larger FPZ. A critical displacement, where the cohesive stress between the crack faces decreases to zero, is determined by analysing the development of the localized zone. Critical displacement determined from the changes of the FPZ width and length is used to determine the onset of macro-cracking and locate the crack tip. The development of the fracture process zone for a magnesia spinel initiates before reaching the maximum load, and the onset of the macro-crack is in the post-peak region. The FPZ size increases until the formation of a macro-crack takes place, but decreases afterwards. For the magnesia refractory, no pronounced FPZ could be detected. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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