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Chapter VIII Micro-hardness studies…<br />

irreversibly deformed zone, affecting the stress field for crack formation,<br />

appears beneath the indenter. The primary cracks produced by indentation with<br />

Vickers diamond pyramid for glasses are radial, medial and lateral types. The<br />

radial and median cracks are particularly important because they control the<br />

fracture strength of the indented specimen under bending or tensile loading<br />

conditions. The different types of cracks are shown in figure (8.9). The cracking<br />

mechanism about Knoop and Vickers indenters in Al2O3 and SiC has been<br />

reported by Lawn and Swain [93]. With Vickers indented specimens, the cracks<br />

were always observed radially extended outwards from the corners of the<br />

indentations.<br />

Figure: 8.9 Schematic diagram depicting the types of cracks.<br />

Basically, two distinct stages of crack formations are proposed [95],<br />

which are cracks occurring during loading and cracks occurring during<br />

unloading. During unloading, just before removal of the indenter, the new<br />

cracks initiate at the deformation zone and extend sideways into a shallow-<br />

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