The fatigue behavior of a polycrystalline alumina was investigated. Stress conditions consisted of a static tensile stress and a static tensile stress with superposed sinusoidal cyclic stress. The alumina exhibited the expected static fatigue behavior; a cyclic fatigue effect characterized by a frequency and amplitude dependence was also observed. Possible mechanisms of cyclic fatigue in brittle materials are discussed.
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