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The effect of the amount and size of alumina sintering aid particles on some mechanical properties and microstructure of silicon carbide bulky pieces via spark plasma sintering

  • Ali Roshani , Mazaher Ramazani EMAIL logo , Mehdi Naderi , Hossein Jamali , Majid Tavoosi , Ehsan Mohammad Sharifi and Mohammad Reza Loghman Estarki ORCID logo EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: March 7, 2023
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International Journal of Materials Research
From the journal International Journal of Materials Research Volume 114 Issue 6

Abstract

In this paper, for sintering silicon carbide nanopowders via the spark plasma sintering method, nano-and micro-sized alumina sintering aids were used separately at 3 vol.%, 5 vol.%, and 7 vol.%. The sintering process was undertaken at 1900 °C for 10 min. To investigate some mechanical and physical properties of the resulting samples, density was obtained via the Archimedean method, and hardness was taken by the Vickers indenter method. The microstructure of the samples was examined through scanning electron microscopy. The results indicated that in the samples containing nano-alumina, the largest percentage of density and hardness was related to the sample containing 5 vol.% nano-alumina as a sintering aid and were obtained as 99% of theoretical density and 31.3 GPa, respectively. For the samples containing micro-alumina, the highest percentage of density and hardness was related to the sample containing 7 vol.% micro-alumina and obtained 93% of theoretical density and 20.1 GPa, respectively. By investigating the fractured surfaces of the samples and via the linear intercept method, the largest mean grain size was associated with the densest sample at 3.7 µm.

Keywords: Grain size; Hardness; Silicon carbide; Sintering aid; Spark plasma sintering
Corresponding authors: Mazaher Ramazani and Mohammad Reza Loghman Estarki, Department of Materials Engineering, Malek Ashtar University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran, E-mail: (M. Ramazani), (M. R. Loghman Estarki) (M. R. Loghman Estarki)

Acknowledgements

This research was conducted under the financial support of the faculty of materials engineering at Malek Ashtar University of technology.

  1. Author contribution: All authors have contributed to Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, and Project administration.

  2. Research funding: The authors have thanked MUT University for the financial support of this work.

  3. Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

  4. Availability of data and materials: The data that support the findings of this study are available from the author upon reasonable request.

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Received: 2022-08-06
Accepted: 2022-10-12
Published Online: 2023-03-07
Published in Print: 2023-06-27

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Keywords for this article
Grain size; Hardness; Silicon carbide; Sintering aid; Spark plasma sintering

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