scholarly journals Quantitative Estimation of Intergranular Glassy Phase of Silicon Nitride Ceramics

1993 ◽  
Vol 101 (1172) ◽  
pp. 480-483
Author(s):  
Kazumasa TAKATORI ◽  
Shigetaka WADA ◽  
Nobuo KOBAYASHI
1992 ◽  
Vol 287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kunihiko Kanbara ◽  
N. Uchida ◽  
K. Uematsu ◽  
T. Kurita ◽  
K. Yoshimoto ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTCorrosion of silicon nitride was studied in boiling nitric acid to examine its feasibility as a drying pan material in the reprocessing of nuclear fuel. Unlike stainless steel (a conventional drying pan material), the weight loss and strength degradation were negligible in the concentration of nitric acid. The corrosion increased with decreasing concentration of nitric acid. At the concentration of 1-6N, the maximum losses of weight and strength were 0.8% and over 40%, respectively, in 200 h. Ionic species dissolved in nitric acid were determined by ICP analysis and were found to be accurately correlated to the weight loss and thickness of the corrosion layer determined by micrography. In the corrosion layer, grain boundary glassy phase was selectively dissolved. Strength loss was correlated to the weight loss and was ascribed to the reduced load bearing area due to corrosion.


Author(s):  
Xu Youren ◽  
Huang Liping ◽  
Fu Xiren ◽  
Yen Tungsheng

A hot-pressed silicon nitride ceramic material with rare-earth oxides additive has been processed, its bend strength maintains 800–900 MPa up to 1300°C and measures 680 MPa at 1400°C, its fracture toughness at room temperature is 4.38–4.96 MPam. X-ray, SEM, EDS and electron probe analyses reveal that the microstructure of this material is composed of fine β-Si3N4 grains, α-Si3N4 whiskers, small tetragonal lanthanide crystals and La-containing glassy phase. Observation on fracture surface shows that the fracture path is mainly transcrystalline up to 1400°C. The effects of additives on strength and fracture toughness of HPSN obtained are also discussed.


2001 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 603-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haitao Yang ◽  
Lin Gao ◽  
Gangqin Shao ◽  
Runze Xu ◽  
Peiyun Huang

2001 ◽  
Vol 201 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. S. Zheng ◽  
K. M. Knowles ◽  
J. M. Vieira ◽  
A. B. Lopes ◽  
F. J. Oliveira

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. 2264-2270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hirokazu Kawaoka ◽  
Tomohiko Adachi ◽  
Tohru Sekino ◽  
Yong-Ho Choa ◽  
Lian Gao ◽  
...  

Highly densed silicon nitride ceramics with various α/β phase ratios were produced by pulse electric current sintering process. The β-phase content of Si3N4 in sintered materials varied from 20 to 100 wt% depending on the sintering condition. The microstructure was observed by scanning electron microscopy and investigated by image analysis. Young's modulus, hardness, fracture toughness, and strength were strongly dependent on the α/β phase ratio. The fracture toughness increased from 4.6 MPa m1/2 for 20-wt% b-phase content to 8.2 MPa m1/2 for 95-wt% β-phase content, and the fracture strength showed a maximum value of about 1.6 GPa at 60-to-80-wt% β-phase content.


1986 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 241
Author(s):  
Akio Sayano ◽  
Shun-ichiro Tanaka ◽  
Kazuo Ikeda

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