Mechanical Properties of Materials Laboratory

Fatigue threshold R-curves predict small crack fatigue behavior of bridging toughened materials, Gallops, S., Fett T., Ager J. W., and Kruzic J. J. , Acta Materialia, Dec, Volume 59, Number 20, p.7654-7661, (2011)

Fatigue Threshold R-curves Predict Fatigue Endurance Strength for Self-Reinforced Silicon Nitride, Greene, R. B., Fuenfschilling S., Fett T., Hoffmann M. J., and Kruzic J. J. , Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Feb, Volume 97, Number 2, p.577-583, (2014)

Fatigue Threshold R-curves for the Analysis of Short Fatigue Cracks, Kruzic, J. J. , Fatigue Crack Growth: Mechanisms, Behavior and Analysis, (2012)

Fatigue Threshold R-curves for Reliability Predictions in Bridging Materials, Kruzic, J. J., Cannon R. M., and Ritchie R. O. , 9th International Fatigue Congress, Atlanta, GA, (2006)

Fatigue threshold R-curves for predicting reliability of ceramics under cyclic loading, Kruzic, J. J., Cannon R. M., Ager J. W., and Ritchie R. O. , Acta Materialia, May, Volume 53, Number 9, p.2595-2605, (2005)

Fatigue Threshold R-Curve Behavior of Grain Bridging Ceramics: Role of Grain Size and Grain-Boundary Adhesion, Gallops, S., Fett T., and Kruzic J. J. , Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Aug, Volume 94, Number 8, p.2556-2561, (2011)

Fatigue Reliability Predictions for Crack Bridging Materials, Gallops, S., and Kruzic J. J. , ASME 2011 Turbo Expo: Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition, p.163–167, (2011)

Fatigue of mineralized tissues: Cortical bone and dentin, Kruzic, J. J., and Ritchie R. O. , Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, Jan, Volume 1, Number 1, p.3-17, (2008)

Fatigue of bulk metallic glasses: Role of free volume, Kruzic, J. J., Launey M. E., and Busch R. , Bulk Metallic Glasses, TMS Annual Meeting, p.45-50, (2006)

Fatigue of bridging ceramics: Understanding crack size effects, Kruzic, J. J., Cannon R. M., and Ritchie R. O. , 11th International Conference on Fracture, (2005)

Fatigue Crack Growth Mechanisms for Nickel-based Superalloy Haynes 282 at 550-750 °C, Rozman, K. A., Kruzic J. J., Sears J. S., and Hawk J. A. , Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, Volume 24, Issue 10, p.3699-3707, (2015)

Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior of Silicon Nitride: Roles of Grain Aspect Ratio and Intergranular Film Composition, Greene, R. B., Fuenfschilling S., Fett T., Hoffmann M. J., and Kruzic J. J. , Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Jan, Volume 96, Number 1, p.259-265, (2013)

Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior of Nickel-base Superalloy Haynes 282 at 550-750 °C, Rozman, K. A., Kruzic J. J., and Hawk J. A. , Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, Volume 24, Issue 8, p.2814-2846, (2015)

Fatigue crack growth behavior of a Zr-Ti-Cu-Ni-Be bulk metallic glass: Role of ambient air environment, Philo, S. L., and Kruzic J. J. , Scripta Materialia, Apr, Volume 62, Number 7, p.473-476, (2010)

Fatigue crack growth behavior of a Zr_58.5Cu_15.6Ni_12.8Al_10.3Nb_2.8 bulk metallic glass-forming alloy, Philo, S. L., Heinrich J., Gallino I., Busch R., and Kruzic J. J. , Scripta Materialia, Feb, Volume 64, Number 4, p.359-362, (2011)

On the fatigue behavior of gamma-based titanium aluminides: Role of small cracks, Kruzic, J. J., Campbell J. P., and Ritchie R. O. , Acta Materialia, Feb, Volume 47, Number 3, p.801-816, (1999)

Fatigue Behavior, Bridging Stresses, and Fatigue Reliability in Silicon Nitride Ceramics, Greene, R. B., and Kruzic J. J. , ASME 2011 International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference, p.65–68, (2011)

An Experimental Assessment of Using Crack-Opening Displacements to Determine Indentation Toughness from Vickers Indents, Kruzic, J. J., and Ritchie R. O. , Indentation Techniques in Ceramic Materials Characterization, Ceramic Transactions, Volume 156, p.83–91, (2004)

Evolution of shear bands, free volume and hardness during cold rolling of a Zr-based bulk metallic glass, Stolpe, M., Kruzic J. J., and Busch R. , Acta Materialia, Feb, Volume 64, p.231-240, (2014)

Effects of polar solvents on the fracture resistance of dentin: role of water hydration, Nalla, R. K., Balooch M., Ager J. W., Kruzic J. J., Kinney J. H., and Ritchie R. O. , Acta Biomaterialia, Jan, Volume 1, Number 1, p.31-43, (2005)

Effects of plastic constraint on the cyclic and static fatigue behavior of metal/ceramic layered structures, Kruzic, J. J., McNaney J. M., Cannon R. M., and Ritchie R. O. , Mechanics of Materials, Jan-Feb, Volume 36, Number 1-2, p.57-72, (2004)

Effects of moisture on grain-boundary strength, fracture, and fatigue properties of alumina, Kruzic, J. J., Cannon R. M., and Ritchie R. O. , Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Aug, Volume 88, Number 8, p.2236-2245, (2005)

Effects of Inclusions in HSLA Carbon Steel on Pitting Corrosion in CaCl₂, Ziomek-Moroz, M., Bullard S., Rozman K., and Kruzic J. , ECS Transactions, Volume 35, Number 17, p.11-20, (2011)

Effects of free volume changes and residual stresses on the fatigue and fracture behavior of a Zr-Ti-Ni-Cu-Be bulk metallic glass, Launey, M. E., Busch R., and Kruzic J. J. , Acta Materialia, Feb, Volume 56, Number 3, p.500-510, (2008)

Effects of aging on the toughness of human cortical bone: A study from nano to macro size-scales, Nalla, R. K., Kruzic J. J., Kinney J. H., Balooch M., Ager J. W., Martin M. C., Tomsia A. P., and Ritchie R. O. , Mechanical Properties of Bioinspired and Biological Materials, MRS Symposium Proceedings, Volume 844, p.53-58, (2005)

The effect of low-temperature structural relaxation on free volume and chemical short-range ordering in a Au₄₉Cu_26.9Si_16.3Ag_5.5Pd_2.3 bulk metallic glass, Evenson, Z., Koschine T., Wei S., Gross O., Bednarcik J., Gallino I., Kruzic J. J., Raetzke K., Faupel F., and Busch R. , Scripta Materialia, Volume 103, p.14-17, (2015)

Effect of aging on the toughness of human cortical bone: evaluation by R-curves, Nalla, R. K., Kruzic J. J., Kinney J. H., and Ritchie R. O. , Bone, Dec, Volume 35, Number 6, p.1240-1246, (2004)

Ductility and fracture toughness of molybdenum with MgAl₂O₄ additions, Gunter, I. M., Schneibel J. H., and Kruzic J. J. , Materials Science and Engineering A-Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing, Jun, Volume 458, Number 1-2, p.275-280, (2007)

A direct comparison of non-destructive techniques for determining bridging stress distributions, Greene, R. B., Gallops S., Fuenfschilling S., Fett T., Hoffmann M. J., Ager J. W., and Kruzic J. J. , Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Aug, Volume 60, Number 8, p.1462-1477, (2012)

Development of ultra-high temperature molybdenum borosilicides, Schneibel, J. H., Kruzic J. J., and Ritchie R. O. , 20th Annual Conference on Fossil Energy Materials, Knoxville, TN, (2006)

Determining worst-case fatigue thresholds for grain-bridging ceramics, Kruzic, J. J., Yuan R., Cannon R. M., and Ritchie R. O. , Materials Lifetime Science & Engineering, TMS Annual Meeting, p.61–68, (2002)

Determining the toughness of ceramics from Vickers indentations using the crack-opening displacements: An experimental study, Kruzic, J. J., and Ritchie R. O. , Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Aug, Volume 86, Number 8, p.1433-1436, (2003)

Detection of dentinal cracks using contrast-enhanced micro-computed tomography, Landrigan, M. D., Flatley J. C., Turnbull T. L., Kruzic J. J., Ferracane J. L., Hilton T. J., and Roeder R. K. , Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, Feb, Volume 3, Number 2, p.223-227, (2010)

Designed heterogeneities improve the fracture reliability of a Zr-based bulk metallic glass, Li, B. S., H. Shakur Shahabi, Scudino S., Eckert J., and Kruzic J. J. , Materials Science and Engineering A, Volume 646, p.242-248, (2015)

Design of Biomaterials: The Balancing Act between Reductionism and Systems Thinking, Nychka, J. A., and Kruzic J. J. , JOM, Apr, Volume 65, Number 4, p.469-472, (2013)

The dentin-enamel junction and the fracture of human teeth, Imbeni, V., Kruzic J. J., Marshall G. W., Marshall S. J., and Ritchie R. O. , Nature Materials, Mar, Volume 4, Number 3, p.229-232, (2005)

Deducing the Fatigue Crack Growth Rates of Natural Flaws in Silicon Nitride Ceramics: Role of R-Curves, Haertelt, M., Fuenfschilling S., Schwind T., Riesch-Oppermann H., Fett T., and Kruzic J. J. , Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Aug, Volume 96, Number 8, p.2593-2597, (2013)

Dedication to Degradation: The Beauty of Materials Designed to Lay in Ruin, Nychka, J. A., and Kruzic J. , JOM, Apr, Volume 66, Number 4, p.556-558, (2014)

Cyclic mechanical loading promotes bacterial penetration along composite restoration marginal gaps., Khvostenko, D, Salehi S, Naleway S E., Hilton T J., Ferracane J L., Mitchell J C., and Kruzic J J. , Dental Materials, Volume 31, Issue 6, p.702-710, (2015)

Crack-Tip Toughness from Vickers Crack-Tip Opening Displacements for Materials with Strongly Rising R-Curves, Fuenfschilling, S., Fett T., Oberacker R., Hoffmann M. J., Schneider G. A., Becher P. F., and Kruzic J. J. , Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Jun, Volume 94, Number 6, p.1884-1892, (2011)

Crack-size effects on cyclic and monotonic crack growth in polycrystalline alumina: Quantification of the role of grain bridging, Kruzic, J. J., Cannon R. M., and Ritchie R. O. , Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Jan, Volume 87, Number 1, p.93-103, (2004)

Crack blunting, crack bridging and resistance-curve fracture mechanics in dentin: effect of hydration, Kruzic, J., Nalla R. K., Kinney J. H., and Ritchie R. O. , Biomaterials, Dec, Volume 24, Number 28, p.5209-5221, (2003)

Cortical bone fracture, Ritchie, R. O., Kinney J. H., Kruzic J. J., and Nalla R. K. , Wiley Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering, (2006)

The contrasting role of microstructure in influencing fracture and fatigue-crack growth in gamma-based titanium aluminides at large and small crack sizes, Kruzic, J. J., Campbell J. P., McKelvey A. L., Choe H., and Ritchie R. O. , Gamma Titanium Aluminides 1999, TMS Annual Meeting, (1999)

Comments on "Measurement of the microstructural fracture toughness of cortical bone using indentation fracture", Kruzic, J. J., and Ritchie R. O. , Journal of Biomechanics, Volume 41, Number 6, p.1379-1380, (2008)

Characterization of fatigue-induced free volume changes in a bulk metallic glass using positron annihilation spectroscopy, Vallery, R. S., Liu M., Gidley D. W., Launey M. E., and Kruzic J. J. , Applied Physics Letters, Dec, Volume 91, Number 26, (2007)

Characteristic dimensions and the micro-mechanisms of fracture and fatigue in 'nano' and 'bio' materials, Ritchie, R. O., Kruzic J. J., Muhlstein C. L., Nalla R. K., and Stach E. A. , International Journal of Fracture, Jul-Aug, Volume 128, Number 1-4, p.1-15, (2004)

Buried absorbable polyglactin 910 sutures do not result in stronger wounds in porcine full thickness skin incisions, Townsend, K, Lear W., Robertson B. L., and Kruzic J. J. , Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, Volume 63, p.386-389, (2016)

Bulk Metallic Glasses as Structural Materials: A Review, Kruzic, J. J. , Advanced Engineering Materials, Volume 18, Issue 8, p.1308–1331, (2016)

Biological materials science: An emerging art, Nychka, J. A., Kruzic J. J., Bandyopadhyay A., and Sarikaya M. , Materials Science & Engineering C-Materials for Biological Applications, May, Volume 31, Number 4, p.713-715, (2011)