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Title: Zirconium Carbide Produced by Spark Plasma Sintering and Hot Pressing: Densification Kinetics, Grain Growth, and Thermal Properties

Abstract

Spark plasma sintering (SPS) has been employed to consolidate a micron-sized zirconium carbide (ZrC) powder. ZrC pellets with a variety of relative densities are obtained under different processing parameters. The densification kinetics of ZrC powders subjected to conventional hot pressing and SPS are comparatively studied by applying similar heating and loading profiles. Due to the lack of electric current assistance, the conventional hot pressing appears to impose lower strain rate sensitivity and higher activation energy values than those which correspond to the SPS processing. A finite element simulation is used to analyze the temperature evolution within the volume of ZrC specimens subjected to SPS. The control mechanism for grain growth during the final SPS stage is studied via a recently modified model, in which the grain growth rate dependence on porosity is incorporated. Finally, the constant pressure specific heat and thermal conductivity of the SPS-processed ZrC are determined to be higher than those reported for the hot-pressed ZrC and the benefits of applying SPS are indicated accordingly.

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  1. San Diego State Univ., San Diego, CA (United States). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
  2. General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
  3. US Army Armament Research Development Engineering Center, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ (United States)
  4. San Diego State Univ., San Diego, CA (United States). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States). Dept. of NanoEngineering
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San Diego State Univ., CA (United States)
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USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1326683
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0008581; DBI-0959908
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Materials
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 9; Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 1996-1944
Publisher:
MDPI
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; zirconium carbide; spark plasma sintering; finite element simulation; grain growth; thermal properties

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Wei, Xialu, Back, Christina, Izhvanov, Oleg, Haines, Christopher, and Olevsky, Eugene. Zirconium Carbide Produced by Spark Plasma Sintering and Hot Pressing: Densification Kinetics, Grain Growth, and Thermal Properties. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.3390/ma9070577.
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Wei, Xialu, Back, Christina, Izhvanov, Oleg, Haines, Christopher, & Olevsky, Eugene. Zirconium Carbide Produced by Spark Plasma Sintering and Hot Pressing: Densification Kinetics, Grain Growth, and Thermal Properties. United States. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma9070577
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Wei, Xialu, Back, Christina, Izhvanov, Oleg, Haines, Christopher, and Olevsky, Eugene. Thu . "Zirconium Carbide Produced by Spark Plasma Sintering and Hot Pressing: Densification Kinetics, Grain Growth, and Thermal Properties". United States. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma9070577. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1326683.
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@article{osti_1326683,
title = {Zirconium Carbide Produced by Spark Plasma Sintering and Hot Pressing: Densification Kinetics, Grain Growth, and Thermal Properties},
author = {Wei, Xialu and Back, Christina and Izhvanov, Oleg and Haines, Christopher and Olevsky, Eugene},
abstractNote = {Spark plasma sintering (SPS) has been employed to consolidate a micron-sized zirconium carbide (ZrC) powder. ZrC pellets with a variety of relative densities are obtained under different processing parameters. The densification kinetics of ZrC powders subjected to conventional hot pressing and SPS are comparatively studied by applying similar heating and loading profiles. Due to the lack of electric current assistance, the conventional hot pressing appears to impose lower strain rate sensitivity and higher activation energy values than those which correspond to the SPS processing. A finite element simulation is used to analyze the temperature evolution within the volume of ZrC specimens subjected to SPS. The control mechanism for grain growth during the final SPS stage is studied via a recently modified model, in which the grain growth rate dependence on porosity is incorporated. Finally, the constant pressure specific heat and thermal conductivity of the SPS-processed ZrC are determined to be higher than those reported for the hot-pressed ZrC and the benefits of applying SPS are indicated accordingly.},
doi = {10.3390/ma9070577},
journal = {Materials},
number = 7,
volume = 9,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jul 14 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Thu Jul 14 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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