Alumina single crystals were compressed perpendicular to the [0001] axis at a constant strain rate between 20° and 950°C. At r>200°C, failure was suppressed by_hydrostatic pressures of 500 to 1500 MPa. Prismatic slip {1120}〈1100〉 was deduced from optical observations of the lateral surfaces and from stress‐optical features in thin sections cut from the specimens. The critical resolved shear stress (CRSS) decreased rapidly with increasing temperature, from a maximum of ∼3000 MPa at 200°C (strain rate 2±10‐−5 s−1). A simple linear law can be fitted with the logarithm of the CRSS as a function of temperature, up to 1800°C. The rate‐controlling mechanism for dislocation glide is likely to be either the Peierls barrier or barriers due to dissociation out of the glide plane.
Des essais de compression à vitesse constante ont été exécutés sur des monocristaux d'alumine entre 25°C et 1800°C sous une pression hydrostatique de 1500 MPa. Les cristaux sollicités pour le glissement prismatique se fracturent en-dessous de 200°C et pour le glissement basai en-dessous de 600°C. Les scissions critiques pour les 2 glissements ont été trouvées entre 100 MPa et 3000 MPa. Elles s'accordent avec l'extrapolation que l'on peut faire des résultats obtenus à haute température et pression normale.
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