Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Effect of Temperature on Dynamic Fatigue Behaviour of Si3N4 Material

WANG Hong-Jie; WANG Yong-Lan; JIN Zhi--Hao; ZHOU Hui-Jiu

  

  1. School of Mater. Sci. and Eng.; Xi an Jiaotong University Xi an 710049 China
  • Received:1997-12-03 Revised:1997-12-16 Published:1998-12-20 Online:1998-12-20

Abstract: The dynamic fatigue behaviours of Si3N4 material at room temperature, 800and 1100℃ were investigated. It was discovered that the fracture strength
decreases with the increase of σ at a high stress rate, and that the stress corrosion exponent n decreases also with the temperature increasing. The former is the same
as that in transformation toughening ceramics and glass-ceramics, but is of some deviation from the theoretical prediction. The fractographic observation showed that
the dynamic fatigue failure mechanism of Si3N4 at elevated temperature is the softing of the glass phase in grain boundaries.

Key words: Si3N4, dynamic fatigue, stress corrosion exponent

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