Forty years after the promise of «ceramic steel?»: Zirconia‐based composites with a metal‐like mechanical behavior

Abstract Forty years ago, Garvie and his Australian co‐workers reported that the stress‐induced transformation of metastable tetragonal zirconia grains to the monoclinic symmetry could give rise to a powerful toughening mechanism. Their results even led them to consider zirconia systems as analogues... View More