Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Processing and Properties of Al2O3-ZrO2(3Y)-SiC Nanocomposites

WANG Hong-Zhi; GAO Lian; GUI Lin-Hua; GUO Jing-Kun   

  1. State Key Lab of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure; Shanghai Institute of Ceramics; Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai 200050 China
  • Received:1998-05-05 Revised:1998-06-12 Published:1999-04-20 Online:1999-04-20

Abstract: The Al2O3-ZrO2(3Y)-SiC composite powders were made by the heterogeneous precipitation method. For getting dense sintered body, the selection of the calcining temperatures was important. The addition of ZrO2 did not
change the hot-pressing sinter temperatures, and the dense bodies could be got at 1700℃. Nano SiC particles were uniformly located in Al2O3
grains because of the transformation of Al2O3 from γ phase to α phase. Larger ZrO2 particles were located among Al2O3
grains, and little spherical ZrO2 particles were located in Al2O3 grains. Some Al2O3 grains were no-equiaxed. The strength of Al2O3-SiC
nanocomposites was 555MPa, toughness was 3.8 MPa·m1/2.

Key words: nanocomposite, precessing, Al2O3, microstructure

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