Paul F. Becher

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• Microstructural design of toughened ceramics

  Paul F. Becher

  1406
  Citations

• Toughening Behavior in Whisker-Reinforced Ceramic Matrix Composites

  Paul F. Becher;Chun-Hway Hsueh;Peter Angelini;Terry N. Tiegs

  801
  Citations

• Microstructural Design of Silicon Nitride with Improved Fracture Toughness: I, Effects of Grain Shape and Size

  Paul F. Becher;Ellen Y. Sun;Kevin P. Plucknett;Kathleen B. Alexander

  663
  Citations

• Toughening Behavior in Sic-Whisker-Reinforced Alumina

  Paul F. Becher;George C. Wei

  514
  Citations

• Nanoscale effects on the ionic conductivity in highly textured YSZ thin films

  Igor Kosacki;Christopher M. Rouleau;Paul F. Becher;James Bentley

  445
  Citations

• Microstructural design of silicon nitride with improved fracture toughness: II. Effects of yttria and alumina additives

  Ellen Y. Sun;Paul F. Becher;Kevin P. Plucknett;Chun-Hway Hsueh

  420
  Citations

• Observation of rare-earth segregation in silicon nitride ceramics at subnanometre dimensions

  Naoya Shibata;Stephen J. Pennycook;Tim R. Gosnell;Gayle S. Painter

  382
  Citations

• Effect of oxygen contamination on densification of TiB2

  Sunggi Baik;Paul F. Becher

  367
  Citations

• Improvements in mechanical properties in SiC by the addition of TiC particles

  G.C. Wei;P.F. Becher

  353
  Citations

• Grain-Size-Dependent Transformation Behavior in Polycrystalline Tetragonal Zirconia

  Paul F. Becher;Michael V. Swain

  350
  Citations

• Grain‐Size Dependence of Fracture Energy in Ceramics: I, Experiment

  R. W. Rice;S. W. Freiman;P. F. Becher

  332
  Citations

• Grain Growth Kinetics in Alumina–Zirconia (CeZTA) Composites

  Kathleen B. Alexander;Paul F. Becher;Shirley B. Waters;Alan Bleier

  178
  Citations

• Effect of Microstructure on the Properties of TiB2 Ceramics

  Matt K. Ferber;Paul F. Becher;Cabell B. Finch

  171
  Citations

• Toughening Behavior Involving Multiple Mechanisms: Whisker Reinforcement and Zirconia Toughening

  P. F. Becher;T. N. Tiegs

  168
  Citations

• Effects of Rare-Earth (RE) Intergranular Adsorption on the Phase Transformation, Microstructure Evolution, and Mechanical Properties in Silicon Nitride with RE2O3+MgO Additives: RE=La, Gd, and Lu

  Paul F. Becher;Gayle S. Painter;Naoya Shibata;Shirley B. Waters

  161
  Citations

• Compositional Effects on the Properties of Si-Al-RE-Based Oxynitride Glasses (RE = La, Nd, Gd, Y, or Lu)

  Paul F. Becher;Shirley B. Waters;C. Gary Westmoreland;Laura Riester

  159
  Citations

• Debonding of interfaces between beta-silicon nitride whiskers and SiAlY oxynitride glasses

  P.F. Becher;E.Y. Sun;Chun-Hway Hsueh;K.B. Alexander

  154
  Citations

• Influence of ZrO2 Grain Size and Content on the Transformation Response in the Al2O3─ZrO2 (12 mol% CeO2) System

  Paul F. Becher;Kathleen B. Alexander;Alan Bleier;Shirley B. Waters

  133
  Citations

• Ceramic composites with a ductile Ni3Al binder phase

  T.N. Tiegs;K.B. Alexander;K.P. Plucknett;P.A. Menchhofer

  130
  Citations

• Effects of Interface Roughness on Residual Stresses in Thermal Barrier Coatings

  Chun-Hway Hsueh;James A. Haynes;Michael J. Lance;Michael J. Lance;Paul F. Becher

  122
  Citations