High temperature deformability of ductile flash-sintered ceramics via in-situ compression

Cho, Jaehun; Li, Qiang; Wang, Han; Fan, Zhe; Li, Jin; Xue, Sichuang; Vikrant, K. S. N.; Wang, Haiyan; Holland, Troy B.; Mukherjee, Amiya K.; García, R. Edwin; Zhang, Xinghang

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-04333-2

High temperature deformability of ductile flash-sintered ceramics via in-situ compression

Journal Article · Fri May 25 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04333-2· OSTI ID:1624094

Cho, Jaehun ^[1]; ^[2]; Wang, Han ^[2]; Fan, Zhe ^[3]; Li, Jin ^[2]; Xue, Sichuang ^[2]; Vikrant, K. S. N. ^[2]; ^[2]; Holland, Troy B. ^[4]; Mukherjee, Amiya K. ^[5]; García, R. Edwin ^[2]; ^[2]

Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States); DOE/OSTI
Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (United States)
Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)

Flash sintering has attracted significant attention as its remarkably rapid densification process at low sintering furnace temperature leads to the retention of fine grains and enhanced dielectric properties. However, high-temperature mechanical behaviors of flash-sintered ceramics remain poorly understood. Here, we present high-temperature (up to 600 °C) in situ compression studies on flash-sintered yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ). Below 400 °C, the YSZ exhibits high ultimate compressive strength exceeding 3.5 GPa and high inelastic strain (~8%) due primarily to phase transformation toughening. At higher temperatures, crack nucleation and propagation are significantly retarded, and prominent plasticity arises mainly from dislocation activity. The high dislocation density induced in flash-sintered ceramics may have general implications for improving the plasticity of sintered ceramic materials.

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Research Organization:: Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); US Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0016337

OSTI ID:: 1624094

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Journal Name: Nature Communications Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 9; ISSN 2041-1723

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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