Machinability of Pre-sintered Ceramics (1st Report)

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...

Strength evaluation of sintered ceramics by dynamic crack path model

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 ...

Microstructure of Spark Plasma-Sintered Silicon Nitride Ceramics

The microstructure and phase composition of the high-content Al2O3-Y2O3-doped spark plasma-sintered silicon nitride were investigated. Fully dense silicon nitride ceramics with a typical α-Si3N4 equiaxed structure with average grain size from 200 to 530 nm, high elastic modulus of 288 GPa, and high hardness of 2038 HV were spark plasma sintered (SPSed) at 1550 °C. Silicon nitride with elongated...