Young's modulus, strength and fracture toughness as a function of density of in situ toughened silicon nitride with 4 wt% scandia

1995 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 276-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. R. Choi ◽  
W. A. Sanders ◽  
J. A. Salem ◽  
V. Tikare
2006 ◽  
Vol 317-318 ◽  
pp. 305-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rak Joo Sung ◽  
Takafumi Kusunose ◽  
Tadachika Nakayama ◽  
Yoon Ho Kim ◽  
Tohru Sekino ◽  
...  

A novel transparent polycrystalline silicon nitride was fabricated by hot-press sintering with MgO and AlN as additives. The mixed powder with 3 wt.% MgO and 9 wt.% AlN was sintered at 1900oC for 1 hour under 30 MPa pressure in a nitrogen gas atmosphere. Transparent polycrystalline silicon nitride was successfully fabricated. The mechanical properties such as density, hardness, young’s modulus, fracture strength and fracture toughness were evaluated. The effect of α/β phase on the mechanical properties of transparent polycrystalline silicon nitride was investigated. The properties were changed depending on the amount of α/β phase. The hardness and Young's modulus increased with increasing the volume fraction of α-phase fraction as a reflection of the higher hardness of α-phase Si3N4. The fracture toughness and fracture strength decreased with decreasing the volume fraction of β-phase Si3N4.


Mechanik ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 92 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 366-370
Author(s):  
Piotr Wyżga ◽  
Piotr Klimczyk ◽  
Jolanta Cyboroń ◽  
Paweł Figiel

Due to the unique properties of ceramics materials based on nitride, it could be used in the broadly understood technique. However, obtaining silicon nitride materials requires it to use the advanced methods of manufacturing, mostly because this material is difficult to sinter. Dense ceramic sinters were obtained from the system Si3N4-Al2O3-Y2O3 by applied pulsed current – SPS/FAST method (spark plasma sintering/field assisted sintering technique). The sintering parameters of the initial mixture were optimized to obtain the highest possible sinter properties, such as: density, Young’s modulus, hardness and fracture toughness. In the presented work the influence of pressure and pulse current, used in the SPS/FAST method, on sinterability and on selected physical and mechanical properties of the obtained materials was analyzed. The purpose of introducing the Al2O3 and Y2O3 additions to the Si3N4 matrix was to activate the hard-to-sinter silicon nitride powder and consequently to achieve a high density of the sintered samples. The best properties were characterized by sinter obtained in 1700°C and under pressure 63 MPa; the holding time at sintering temperature was 15 min. The density of the obtained sample has reached 98% theoretical value, and the other parameters were: Young’s modulus – 298 GPa, Vickers hardness – 17,7 GPa, fracture toughness – 6 MPa∙m1/2.


1993 ◽  
Vol 308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandrine Bec ◽  
André Tonck ◽  
Jean-Luc Loubet

ABSTRACTPyrolysis of polymer precursors (polysilazane) is a technologically and economically interesting way to produce thin ceramic coatings. However, many cracks appear and decohesion occurs during pyrolysis when the ceramic coatings (SiOCN) are thicker than 0.5 micrometers. In order to understand these cracking phenomena, the coatings are mechanically characterized by nanoindentation at different stages of the pyrolysis heat treatment.During pyrolysis, the cracking temperature is detected by in-situ optical observation. The thickness of the coatings varies during pyrolysis from 3 micrometers at the polymeric state to 1 micrometer at the ceramic state. The coatings' properties, hardness and Young's modulus are evaluated after heat treatment, taking into account the substrate's influence. A large variation of these properties occurs at the cracking temperature. Both the hardness and the Young's modulus are multiplied by a factor of 10. By analysing these results, we show that cracking is correlated with the evolution of the coatings' mechanical properties during the transformation.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peida Hao ◽  
Yanping Liu ◽  
Yuanming Du ◽  
Yuefei Zhang

In situ nanoindentation was employed to probe the mechanical properties of individual polycrystalline titania (TiO2) microspheres. The force-displacement curves captured by a hybrid scanning electron microscope/scanning probe microscope (SEM/SPM) system were analyzed based on Hertz’s theory of contact mechanics. However, the deformation mechanisms of the nano/microspheres in the nanoindentation tests are not very clear. Finite element simulation was employed to investigate the deformation of spheres at the nanoscale under the pressure of an AFM tip. Then a revised method for the calculation of Young’s modulus of the microspheres was presented based on the deformation mechanisms of the spheres and Hertz’s theory. Meanwhile, a new force-displacement curve was reproduced by finite element simulation with the new calculation, and it was compared with the curve obtained by the nanoindentation experiment. The results of the comparison show that utilization of this revised model produces more accurate results. The calculated results showed that Young’s modulus of a polycrystalline TiO2microsphere was approximately 30% larger than that of the bulk counterpart.


1999 ◽  
Vol 594 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Y. Zhang ◽  
Y. J. Su ◽  
C. F. Qian ◽  
M. H. Zhao ◽  
L. Q. Chen

AbstractThe present work proposes a novel microbridge testing method to simultaneously evaluate the Young's modulus, residual stress of thin films under small deformation. Theoretic analysis and finite element calculation are conducted on microbridge deformation to provide a closed formula of deflection versus load, considering both substrate deformation and residual stress in the film. Silicon nitride films fabricated by low pressure chemical vapor deposition on silicon substrates are tested to demonstrate the proposed method. The results show that the Young's modulus and residual stress for the annealed silicon nitride film are respectively 202 GPa and 334.9 MPa.


2013 ◽  
Vol 761 ◽  
pp. 83-86
Author(s):  
Hideaki Sano ◽  
Junichi Morisaki ◽  
Guo Bin Zheng ◽  
Yasuo Uchiyama

Effects of carbon nanotubes (CNT) addition on mechanical properties, electric conductivity and oxidation resistance of CNT/Al2O3-TiC composite were investigated. It was found that flexural strength, Young’s modulus and fracture toughness of the composites were improved by addition of more than 2 vol%-CNT. In the composites with more than 3 vol%-CNT, the oxidation resistance of the composite was degraded. In comparison with Al2O3-26vol%TiC sample as TiC particle-percolated sample, the Al2O3-12vol%TiC-3vol%CNT sample, which is not TiC particle-percolated sample, shows almost the same mechanical properties and electric conductivity, and also shows thinner oxidized region after oxidation at 1200°C due to less TiC in the composite.


2004 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Vuckovic ◽  
Snezana Boskovic ◽  
Ljiljana Zivkovic

The objective of this work was to investigate the effect of two different sintering additives (CeO2 and Y2O3 + Al2O3), sintering time and amount of ?-Si3N4 seeds on the densification, mechanical properties and microstructure of self-reinforced Si3N4 based composites obtained by pressureless sintering. Preparation of ?-Si3N4 seeds, also obtained by a pressureless sintering procedure, is described. Samples without seeds were prepared for comparison. The results imply that self-reinforced silicon nitride based composites with densities close to the theoretical values and with fracture toughness of 9.3MPa m1/2 can be obtained using a presureless sintering procedure.


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