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The Phase Composition and Mechanical Properties of Al2O3-TiN-TiC Ceramic Materials with Different Ni Content
Y. Fei1, Ch. Huang2, H. Liu2
1 College of Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Rizhao 276826, P. R. China No.80, Yantai Road, Donggang District, Rizhao, Shandong Province, P. R. China
2 Center for Advanced Jet Engineering Technologies (CaJET), School of Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250061, P. R. China No.17923, Jingshi Road, Lixia District, Jinan, Shandong Province, P. R. China
received Febuary 12, 2019, received in revised form April 7, 2019, accepted June 18, 2019
Vol. 10, No. 2, Pages 1-8 DOI: 10.4416/JCST2019-00012
Abstract
Research on the phase analysis of ceramic materials is less abundant than research on the microstructure. In this paper, Al2O3-TiN-TiC ceramic materials with different Ni content were fabricated by means of the hot-pressing technique. The effects of the content of Ni on the phase composition and the mechanical properties of sintered ceramic materials were investigated. The results showed that there were many diffraction peaks corresponding to the products of Ni in the range of 40°<2θ<45°, and the phases containing Ni element changed from spinel structure to intermetallic compounds. After sintering, many new phases appeared, such as Ti8C5, TiC0.51N0.12, TiN0.90, MgAl2O4, Al3Mg2, and MoC. As the Ni content increased, both the flexural strength and the fracture toughness first increased then decreased, with the maximum values occurring when Ni content was 3 vol% However, the hardness decreased continuously as the Ni content increased. When the content of Ni was 3 vol%, the ceramic materials had optimum comprehensive mechanical properties at room temperature, the flexural strength, toughness and Vickers hardness reached 658.5 MPa, 7.0 MPa·m1/2 and 19.8 GPa, respectively. The relationship between phase composition and the mechanical properties was also analyzed, and the phases beneficial to each of the three mechanical properties were obtained.
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Al2O3-TiN-TiC ceramic, Ni content, phase composition, mechanical properties
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