Fusing of Castable Ceramics to the Sintered Zirconium Body.

Castability of a commercial castable glass ceramics.

This study was carried out to determine the design and thickness of the cervical margin of a castable ceramic restoration from the point of view of its castability. Castability of castable ceramics was lower compared to Ag-Pd-Au and Co-Cr alloy with the use of the mesh pattern and rod pattern test (p < 0.05). It was more dependent on the pattern thickness than alloys (p < 0.05), and perfect rep...

Ancient Technologies: The Egyptian Sintered-Quartz Ceramics

To physicists and engineers, ceramics represent materials demonstrating excellent strength and hardness, materials that can serve as electrical insulators or conductors, some of them being able of a high-temperature superconductivity. To researchers working in archaeology and art history, ceramics mean objects such as figurines, tiles and tableware helping understanding cultures and technologie...

Microstructure of spark plasma sintered TiB2 and TiB2–AlN ceramics

In this research study, the effects of aluminum nitride (AlN) additive on the densification behavior and microstructure development of titanium diboride (TiB2) based ceramic matrix composite were investigated. In this way, a monolithic TiB2 ceramic and a TiB2–5 wt% AlN ultrahigh temperature ceramic composite were fabricated by spark plasma sintering (SPS) proces...

Properties of sintered glass-ceramics in the diopside–albite system

A series of sintered glass-ceramics belonging to the system diopside–albite, forming by surface crystallization 30, 50 and 65% diopside, was investigated. In order to study the effect of bulk crystallization on the sintering a 0.7% of Cr2O3 as nucleation agent was added in one of the compositions. The crystallization was evaluated by DTA and density measurements and the degree of densification ...

Strength evaluation of sintered ceramics by dynamic crack path model