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Imaging cracks in hostile regimes

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The evolution of microcrack damage in materials under hostile thermal and mechanical conditions has now been imaged in three dimensions by real-time in situ X-ray microtomography.

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Figure 1: By combining computer tomography with environmental rigs (leftmost image in all panels) new regimes of damage can be imaged.
Figure 2: A wide range of toughening mechanisms can be observed and quantified by X-ray computed tomography, many of which are critical to the toughening of high-temperature ceramics.

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  1. Philip J. Withers is at the Manchester X-ray Imaging Facility and at the BP International Centre for Advanced Materials, School of Materials, University of Manchester, Grosvenor Street, Manchester M13 9PL, UK,

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Withers, P. Imaging cracks in hostile regimes. Nature Mater 12, 7–9 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3529

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