High Temperature Evaluation of New Ferroelastic Toughened Ceramic Materials
Abstract
The toughness behavior of ceria tetragonal zirconia polycrystalline (TZP) ceramics was investigated relative to the effect of various dopants (coded as dopants A, B and C in this report due to pending patent applications). Additions of dopant A enhanced the toughness of zirconia ceramics, dopant B suppressed the fracture toughness and , dopant C had little effect on toughness. High temperature strength retention in zirconia ceramics containing dopant A suggest that mechanisms other than transformation toughening are operative. Switching of x-ray peak intensities showed that the tetragonal zirconia used in the present study os ferroelastic.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 1988
- Accession Number
- ADA203197
Entities
People
- Robert J. Mayhew
- Roger L. Matsumoto