Microstructure and mechanical properties of cold sintered porous alumina ceramics

Microstructure and mechanical properties of pressureless sintered alumina-silver composites

The silver toughened alumina ceramics, which were fabricated via a conventional ceramic processing route using commercially available alumina and silver oxide powders as the starting materials, exhibit a higher fracture toughness (6 to 9 MPamo.5) than the monolithic alumina ceramic ( 2.5 to 3.0 MPamo.5). The weak interfacial bonding between the silver inclusions and the alumina matrix is charac...

Microstructure and Properties of Spark Plasma Sintered MoAlB Ceramics

Advisor: Bai Cui Molybdenum aluminum boride (MoAlB) is a ternary transition metal boride which has promising aeronautic and nuclear applications. It inheres excellent properties of the binary transitional metal borides (e.g., MoB, ZrB2) such as high melting temperature, high hardness, and thermal conductivity. Besides, MoAlB is superior to MoB because: (1) the Al element provides an oxidation r...

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...

Mechanical properties of highly porous alumina foams

The mechanical properties of porous ceramics are greatly influenced by their microstructure. Therefore, mechanical behavior of highly porous ceramics is different from that of dense ceramics. In this work, we evaluate different mechanical testing methods such as static compression, Brazilian disc test and 3-point bending on their suitability for comparison of highly porous ceramic materials. It...

Synthesis, Microstructure and Properties of High-Strength Porous Ceramics