Enhanced properties of alumina-aluminium titanate composites obtained by spark plasma reaction-sintering of slip cast green bodies

Borrell, Amparo, Salvador, María Dolores, Garcia Rocha, Victoria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6125-8556, Fernández, Adolfo, Molina, Tamara and Moreno, Rodrigo 2013. Enhanced properties of alumina-aluminium titanate composites obtained by spark plasma reaction-sintering of slip cast green bodies. Composites: Part B Engineering 47 , pp. 255-259. 10.1016/j.compositesb.2012.11.010

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Abstract

Full dense alumina + 40 vol.% aluminium titanate composites were obtained by colloidal filtration and fast reaction-sintering of alumina/titania green bodies by spark plasma sintering at low temperatures (1250–1400 °C). The composites obtained had near-to-theoretical density (>99%) with a bimodal grain size distribution. Phase development analysis demonstrated that aluminium titanate has already formed at 1300 °C. The mechanical properties such as Vickers hardness, flexural strength and fracture toughness of bulk composites are significantly higher than those reported elsewhere, e.g. the composite sintered at 1350 °C show values of about 24 GPa, 424 MPa and 5.4 MPa m1/2, respectively. The improved mechanical properties of these composites are attributed to the enhanced densification and the finer and more uniform nanostructure achieved by non-conventional fast sintering of slip-cast dense green compacts.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Engineering
Subjects:	T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	1359-8368
Date of Acceptance:	13 November 2012
Last Modified:	01 Nov 2022 10:57
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/93343

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