Effect of tremolite on the mechanical properties and thermal shock resistance of Al2O3 composites fabricated by temperature gradient spark plasma sintering
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Junlong Sun
Abstract
Al2O3 has received increasing attention in the field of cutting tools and structural ceramics owing to its good mechanical performance. The mechanical and thermodynamic properties of Al2O3 matrix composites prepared by temperature gradient spark plasma sintering were investigated in this study. Liquid-phase sintering was confirmed to have occurred, based on thermodynamics and X-ray diffraction analysis during the fabrication of the Al2O3 composites. By dynamically modifying the heating rate during the entire preparation process, Al2O3 composites with smaller grain sizes were obtained. The effect of the tremolite additive on the hardness of the Al2O3 composites was elucidated by comprehensively considering the hardness and densification effects. The microstructural evolution of the composites was analyzed. The critical crack length was considered as the parameter necessary to evaluate the thermal shock resistance of the Al2O3 composites. The crack propagation resistance was found to significantly affect the thermal shock resistance of the Al2O3 composites. The results showed that the thermal shock resistance of the Al2O3 composites improved owing to the decrease in porosity and the improvement in mechanical properties due to the addition of tremolite.
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Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
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Research funding: The authors are grateful to the financial support from the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (Grant No. ZR2022ME169 and ZR2021ME152), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51505208), Key Technology Research and Development Program of Shandong province (Grant No. 2019GGX104085).
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Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.
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