TOUGHENING AND STRENGTHENING OF Al_2O_3 CERAMICS THROUGH NANO-Al_2O_3 ADDITION
LI Guanghai;JIANG Anquan;ZHANG Lide (Institute of Solid State Physics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Hefei 230031)(Manuscript received 1995-12-27; in revised form 1996-08-12)
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LI Guanghai;JIANG Anquan;ZHANG Lide (Institute of Solid State Physics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Hefei 230031)(Manuscript received 1995-12-27; in revised form 1996-08-12). TOUGHENING AND STRENGTHENING OF Al_2O_3 CERAMICS THROUGH NANO-Al_2O_3 ADDITION. Acta Metall Sin, 1996, 32(12): 1285-1288.
Abstract Nano-Al2O3 powders processed by the hydrolysis technique of pure Al sheet after activation were added into Al2O3 ceramics.The results indicated that the nano-Al2O3 addition can increase not only the sinterability of the Al2O3 ceramics, but the fracture toughness and bending strength as well, and this kind of increase can be obtained only when the grain size of the added nano-Al2O3 is small enough, for example,37 nm.