A. Wolfenden, MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS OF ELASTIC AND ANELASTIC PROPERTIES OF ALUMINA AND SILICON-CARBIDE, Journal of Materials Science, 32(9), 1997, pp. 2275-2282
Measurements of dynamic Young's modulus, E and damping as a function o
f temperature, T, were made for alumina and silicon carbide. The Young
's modulus data were compared with some from the literature, and analy
sed in terms of a theoretical framework relating the Debye temperature
, theta(D), with the elastic constants. For both materials this analys
is yielded a ratio T-0/theta(D) which was near 0.4, where T-0 is an em
pirical fitting constant for the plot of (E(0) - E)/T versus 1/T (E(0)
is the value of E at 0 K). The analysis of the damping data in terms
of an Arrhenius type dependence led to effective activation energies n
ear kT, where k is Boltzmann's constant.