SELECTED PUBLICATIONS for R.O. RITCHIE (1994-95)

• R. O. Ritchie, "Crack Propagation in Metal-Matrix Composites. I: Interaction of Cracks with Metal/Ceramic Interfaces", in Mechanical Behaviour of Materials at High Temperatures, C. Moura Branco, et al. eds., Kluwer, The Netherlands, 1995.
• R. O. Ritchie, "Crack Propagation in Metal-Matrix Composites. II: Mechanisms of Fatigue-Crack Growth", in Mechanical Behaviour of Materials at High Temperatures, C. Moura Branco, et al. eds., Kluwer, The Netherlands, 1995.
• R. O. Ritchie and C. J. Gilbert, "Toughened Silicon Carbides for High Temperature Use", in Mechanical Behaviour of Materials at High Temperatures, C. Moura Branco, et al. eds., Kluwer, The Netherlands, 1995.
• M. D. Drory, R. H. Dauskardt, A. Kant and R. O. Ritchie, "Fracture of Synthetic Diamond", Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 78, 1995, pp. 3083-88.
• C. J. Gilbert, R. H. Dauskardt and R. O. Ritchie, "Behavior of Cyclic Fatigue Cracks in Monolithic Silicon Nitride", Journal of the American Ceramic Society, vol. 78, 1995, pp. 2291-300.
• K. T. Venkateswara Rao, Y.-M. Kim and R. O. Ritchie, "High-Temperature Fatigue-Crack Growth Behavior in a Two-Phase (gamma + alpha-2) TiAl Intermetallic Alloy", Scripta Metallurgica et Materialia, vol. 33, 1995, pp. 459-65.
• C. D. Bencher, A. Sakaida, K. T. Venkateswara Rao and R. O. Ritchie, "On the Mechanisms of Ductile-Phase Toughening in Niobium-Reinforced Niobium Aluminide (Nb-Nb3Al) In Situ Composites," Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, vol. 26, 1995, pp. 2027-33.
• T. D. Mitchell, L. C. DeJonghe, W. J. MoberlyChan and R. O. Ritchie, "Silicon Carbide Platelet/Silicon Carbide Composites", Journal of the American Ceramic Society, vol. 78, 1995, 97-103.
• C. J. Gilbert, R. H. Dauskardt, R. W. Steinbrech, R. N. Petrany and R. O. Ritchie, "Cyclic Fatigue in Monolithic Alumina: Mechanisms for Crack Advance Promoted by Frictional Wear of Grain Bridges," Journal of Materials Science, vol. 30, 1995, pp. 643-54.
• J. M. McNaney, R. M. Cannon and R. O. Ritchie, "Elastic Compliance of Four-Point Bend Samples Comprising Two Linear-Elastic Materials Bonded with a Thin Layer," ASTM Journal of Testing and Evaluation, vol. 23, 1995, pp. 95-101.
• C. D. Bencher, R. H. Dauskardt and R. O. Ritchie, "Microstructural Damage and Fracture Processes in a Composite Solid Rocket Propellant," Journal of Spacecrafts and Rockets, vol. 32, 1995, pp.328-334.
• K. T. Venkateswara Rao, Y.-M. Kim, C. H. Muhlstein and R. O. Ritchie, "Fatigue-Crack Growth and Fracture Resistance of Duplex and Lamellar Microstructures in a Two-Phase (gamma + alpha-2) TiAl Intermetallic Alloy", Materials Science and Engineering A, vol. 192/193, 1995, pp. 474-82.
• M. J. Hoffman, Y.-W. Mai, R. H. Dauskardt, J. Ager and R. O. Ritchie, "Grain Size Effects on Cyclic Fatigue and Crack-Growth Resistance Behavior of Partially Stabilized Zirconia," Journal of Materials Science, vol. 30, 1995, pp. 3291-99.
• C. D. Bencher, L. Murugesh, K. T. Venkateswara Rao and R. O. Ritchie, "Phase Transformations in an In Situ Nb-Reinforced Nb3Al Intermetallic Composite," Journal of Intermetallics, vol. 2, 1995.
• C. J. Gilbert, R. H. Dauskardt and R. O. Ritchie, "Microstructural Mechanisms of Cyclic Fatigue-Crack Propagation in Grain-Bridging Ceramics," Ceramics International, vol. 22, 1995.
• K. T. Venkateswara Rao and R. O. Ritchie, "Toughness and Fatigue-Crack Growth in gamma-TiAl Intermetallic Composites at Ambient and High Temperatures," in Fatigue and Fracture of Ordered Intermetallics and Composites II, W. O. Soboyejo, et al., eds., TMS, Warrendale, PA, 1995, pp. 327-38.
• R. O. Ritchie, "Fatigue and Fracture of Pyrolytic Carbon: A Damage-Tolerant Approach to Structural Integrity and Life Prediction in "Ceramic" Heart-Valve Prostheses", Journal of Heart Valve Disease, vol. 5, 1996.
• K. T. Venkateswara Rao, Y.-M. Kim, R. O. Ritchie, "Fatigue-Crack Growth Behavior in a Dual-Phase (gamma+alpha-2) TiAl Intermetallic Alloy at Elevated Temperatures", in Gamma Titanium Aluminides, Y-W. Kim et al., eds., TMS, Warrendale, PA, 1995.
• J. J. Cao, W. J. MoberlyChan, L. C. DeJonghe, C. J. Gilbert and R. O. Ritchie, "In Situ Toughened Silicon Carbide with Al-B-C Additions", Journal of the American Ceramic Society, vol. 78, 1995.
• R. O. Ritchie, R. H. Dauskardt, W. W. Gerberich, A. Strojny and E. Lilleodden, "Fracture, Fatigue and Indentation Behavior of Pyrolytic Carbon for Biomedical Applications", in Mechanical Behavior of Diamond and Other Forms of Carbon, MRS Symposium Proceedings, M. D. Drory et al., eds., vol. 383, Materials Research Society, PA, 1995.
• A. Kant, M. D. Drory and R. O. Ritchie, "Fracture Toughness and Subcritical Crack Growth in CVD Diamond", in Mechanical Behavior of Diamond and Other Forms of Carbon, MRS Symposium Proceedings, M. D. Drory et al., eds., vol. 383, Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, PA, 1995.
• R. O. Ritchie, "On the Interaction of Cracks with Bimaterial Interfaces," in Fracture and Integrity of Materials and Structures, O. M. Romaniv, ed., Lviv, Ukraine, 1995.
• R. O. Ritchie and C. J. Gilbert, "Resistance to Cyclic Fatigue of Ceramics at Ambient and Elevated Temperatures", in Proceedings of the First Argentina-USA Bilateral Conference on Materials Science and Engineering, J. M. Sanchez, et al. eds., 1995.
• R. O. Ritchie, R. H. Dauskardt, and K. T. Venkateswara Rao, "Fatigue-Crack Propagation Behavior in Monolithic and Composite Ceramics and Intermetallics," Physiochemical Mechanics of Materials, vol. 30, 1994, pp. 7-35.
• K. T. Venkateswara Rao, G. R. Odette, and R. O. Ritchie, "Ductile-Reinforcement Toughening in gamma-TiAl Intermetallic-Matrix Composites under Monotonic and Cyclic Loading: Effect on Fracture Toughness and Fatigue-Crack Propagation Resistance," Acta Metallurgica et Materialia, vol. 42, 1994, pp. 893-911.
• R. H. Dauskardt, R. O. Ritchie, J. K. Takemoto, and A. M. Brendzel, "Cyclic Fatigue and Fracture in Pyrolytic Carbon-Coated Graphite Mechanical Heart-Valve Prostheses: Role of Small Cracks in Life Prediction," Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, vol. 28, 1994, pp. 791-804.
• J. M. McNaney, R. M. Cannon and R. O. Ritchie, "Near-Interfacial Crack Trajectories in Metal-Ceramic Layered Structures," International Journal of Fracture, vol. 66, 1994, pp. 227-40.
• B. E. Cornelissen, R. H. Dauskardt, R. O. Ritchie, and G. Thomas, "Cyclic Fatigue Behavior and Fracture Toughness of Silicon Nitride Ceramics Sintered with Rare-Earth Oxides," Acta Metallurgica et Materialia, vol. 42, 1994, pp. 3055-64.
• L. Murugesh, K. T. Venkateswara Rao, and R. O. Ritchie, "Powder Processing of Ductile-Phase Toughened Nb/Nb3Al In Situ Composites," Materials Science and Engineering A, vol A189, 1994, pp. 201-08.
• R. O. Ritchie and R. H. Dauskardt, "Fatigue-Crack Propagation Behavior in Ceramic Materials," Trans. Materials Research Society of Japan, vol. 14A, 1994, pp. 359-64.
• R. O. Ritchie, R. M. Cannon, B. J. Dalgleish, R. H. Dauskardt, and J. M. McNaney, "On the Strength and Toughness of Structural Ceramics Bonded to Metals," Trans. Materials Research Society of Japan, vol. 14A, 1994, pp. 409-12.
• C. J. Gilbert, J. M. McNaney, R. H. Dauskardt, and R. O. Ritchie, "Back-Face Strain Compliance and Electrical-Potential Crack Length Calibrations for the Disk-Shaped Compact-Tension DC(T) Specimen," ASTM Journal of Testing and Evaluation, vol. 22, 1994, pp. 117-20.
• B. J. Dalgleish, E. Saiz, A. P. Tomsia, R. M. Cannon, and R. O. Ritchie, "Interface Formation and Strength in Ceramic-Metal Systems," Scripta Metallurgica et Materialia, vol. 31, 1994, pp. 1109-14.
• K. T. Venkateswara Rao and R. O. Ritchie, "Fracture and Fatigue Considerations in the Development of Ductile-Phase Reinforced Intermetallic-Matrix Composites," in Fatigue and Fracture of Ordered Intermetallics and Composites, W. O. Soboyejo, et al., eds., TMS, Warrendale, PA, 1994, pp. 3-12.
• R. O. Ritchie and R. H. Dauskardt, "Fatigue in Ceramics, Cyclic" in The Encyclopedia of Advanced Materials, D. Bloor, et al, eds., Pergamon Press, vol. 2, 1994, pp. 791-98.
• R. O. Ritchie, "Materials Evaluation for Fatigue Resistance in Advanced Ceramics and Intermetallics, " in Materials Evaluation, Proceedings of International Symposium, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, 1994, pp. 75-90.