ISSN:
1551-2916
Quelle:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Thema:
Maschinenbau
,
Physik
Notizen:
Based on the processing strategy of improving the mechanical properties of liquid-phase-sintered materials by modifying the secondary phase chemistry, four rare-earth oxides (RE2O3, RE = La, Nd, Y, and Yb), in combination with alumina, were used as sintering aids for a submicrometer-size β-SiC powder. Doped with 5 vol% RE2O3+ Al2O3 additives, all specimens were hot-pressed to near full-densities at 1800°C, and they exhibited similar microstructures and grain size distributions. The SiC grains in all specimens revealed a core-rim structure after being plasma-etched, indicating that they were densified via the same solution-reprecipitation mechanism. It was found that a decrease in the cationic radius of the rare-earth oxides was accompanied by an increase in Young’s modulus, hardness, and flexural strength of the SiC ceramics, whereas the fracture toughness was improved by incorporating rare-earth oxides of larger cationic radius. The changes in the mechanical properties were attributed to the difference in the chemistry of the intergranular phases in the four ceramics.
Materialart:
Digitale Medien
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1151-2916.2001.tb00891.x
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