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ADVANTAGES OF CERAMICS
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ADVANTAGES OF CERAMICS
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ADVANTAGES OF CERAMICS
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ADVANTAGES OF CERAMICS
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DISADVANTAGES OF CERAMICS
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Ceramics are inherently resilient to oxidation and deterioration at elevated temperatures. But they are very prone to brittle fractures, else, some of these materials would be ideal for use in high temperature and severe stress applications. Such applications also include automobile and aircraft gas turbine engines
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Research has been conducted to improve toughness. Hot pressing with additives and reaction bonding improve toughness
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CRYSTAL STRUCTURES
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Zirconia is very useful in its 'stabilized' state. If sufficient quantities of the metastable tetragonal phase is present, then an applied stress, magnified by the stress concentration at a crack tip, can cause the tetragonal phase to convert to monoclinic, with the associated volume expansion. This phase transformation can then put the crack into compression, retarding its growth, and enhancing the fracture toughness. This mechanism is known as transformation toughening, and significantly extends the reliability and lifetime of products made with stabilized zirconia.
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The process of "transformation toughening" is based on the assumption that zirconia undergoes several martensitic phase transformations (cubic tetragonal monoclinic) between room temperature and practical sintering temperatures. Thus, due to the volume restrictions induced by the solid matrix, metastable crystalline structures can become frozen in which impart an internal strain field surrounding each zirconia inclusion upon cooling. This enables a zirconia particle to absorb the energy of an approaching crack tip front in its nearby vicinity
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STABILIZATION OF ZIRCONIA
Stabilizing of zirconia can be achieved by adding 3 to 7 wt.% of CaO. At this composition, at about 10000C, both cubic and tetragonal phases will exist. Upon cooling to room temperature under normal conditions, the monoclinic and CaZr4O9 phases dont form (as predicted from the phase diagram) Consequently, the cubic and tetragonal phases are retained and crack formation is circumvented
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Stabilizing of zirconia can also be achieved by adding 3.6 wt.% of Y2O3. At this composition, at about 11000C, tetragonal phase is pretty stable. Upon cooling to room temperature under relatively rapid cooling, the tetragonal phase is retained. From the phase diagram it is evident that a monoclinic ZrO2 is the stable phase, which coexists with this now unstable tetragonal phase in metastable equilibrium.
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Stabilizing of zirconia can also be achieved by adding 9 mol% of MgO. At this composition, sintering at about 18000C, and then rapidly cooling it to room temperature, will result in the all-metastable cubic structure. If this material is reheated to 14000C, and held for sufficiently long time, a fine metastable submicroscopic precipitate with the tetragonal structure is precipitated.
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STABILIZATION OF ZIRCONIA
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Single crystals of the cubic phase of zirconia are commonly used as diamond simulant in jewellery. Visually discerning a good quality cubic zirconia gem from a diamond is difficult, and most jewellers will have a thermal conductivity tester to identify cubic zirconia by its low thermal conductivity (diamond is a very good thermal conductor). This material is also used in the manufacture of sub-frames for the construction of dental restorations such as crowns and bridges, which are then veneered with a conventional feldspathic porcelain
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