High temperature deformability of ductile flash-sintered ceramics via in-situ compression
Abstract
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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- 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)
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- Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); US Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR); National Science Foundation (NSF)
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- 1624094
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- SC0016337; 1161978
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- Nature Communications
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- Journal Volume: 9; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
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- Nature Publishing Group
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- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Science & Technology - Other Topics; Ceramics; Mechanical Engineering; Mechanical Properties
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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, and Zhang, Xinghang. High temperature deformability of ductile flash-sintered ceramics via in-situ compression. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-04333-2.
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. High temperature deformability of ductile flash-sintered ceramics via in-situ compression. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04333-2
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, and Zhang, Xinghang. Fri .
"High temperature deformability of ductile flash-sintered ceramics via in-situ compression". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04333-2. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1624094.
@article{osti_1624094,
title = {High temperature deformability of ductile flash-sintered ceramics via in-situ compression},
author = {Cho, Jaehun and Li, Qiang and Wang, Han and Fan, Zhe and Li, Jin and Xue, Sichuang and Vikrant, K. S. N. and Wang, Haiyan and Holland, Troy B. and Mukherjee, Amiya K. and García, R. Edwin and Zhang, Xinghang},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-018-04333-2},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = 1,
volume = 9,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri May 25 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Fri May 25 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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Fig. 1: Microstructure of flash-sintered 3YSZ. a SEM images of the unpolished flash-sintered 3YSZ. The average particle size is ~1 μm. Scale bar, 3 μm. b Bright-field TEM micrograph showing subgrains with grain boundaries and defects generated during flash sintering (labeled by black arrows), and nanopores (~1.4%) (indicated by redmore »
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