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A Personal History of the Development of Transformation Toughened PSZ Ceramics

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The author has been working exclusively with zirconia materials during the past two and a half decades. This effort culminated in the discovery of transformation toughening. An outline of the work leading up to and subsequent to this invention is presented here.

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  1. Division of Materials Science and Technology, CSIRO, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia

    R. C. Garvie

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  1. The Nishi-Tokyo University, Japan

    Shigeyuki Sōmiya (Dean Professor) (Dean Professor)

  2. National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials, Ibaraki, Japan

    Yusuke Moriyoshi (Doctor) (Doctor)

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Garvie, R.C. (1990). A Personal History of the Development of Transformation Toughened PSZ Ceramics. In: Sōmiya, S., Moriyoshi, Y. (eds) Sintering Key Papers. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0741-6_13

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