Zirconium diboride ceramics with and without carbon boron carbide nanopowder additives were prepared by ball milling ZrB2 grinding media pressureless sintering. Additions of up to 1 wt% nano-B4C 0.5 C made the powder. The materials then sintered between 1800 2300 °C for 90 360 min in an Ar/10H2 atmosphere. After sintering at 2200 min, densities ranged from 88.3 90.7% 0–1.0% addition. Carbon add...

G. Krolczyk, Opole University of Technology, Faculty of Production Engineering and Logistics, Opole, Poland; P. Nieslony, Opole University of Technology, Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Production Automation; S. Legutko, Poznan University of Technology, Institute of Mechanical Technology, Poznan, Poland; S. Hloch, Intitute of Geonics Academy of Science v.v.i. Ostrava – Poruba, Czech...

In this research work, Al 1wt% silver coated multi wall carbon nanotube (MWCNT) composite have been processed using powder metallurgy technique. In order to distribute CNT uniformly in the aluminum matrix high energy ball milling is required. . It was found that excessive milling can lead to carbide and alumina formation. So to reduce the milling time, the surface of CNT is modified by coating ...

To modify the relatively low fracture toughness of monolithic ceramics, the incorporation of long ceramic fibre within a matrix material has been extensively performed. In this case, as cracks form in the matrix material and approach the fibres, they will be deflected at the interface between the fibre and the matrix. We developed another approach toward improving the toughness of ceramics invo...

In sheet metal forming (SMF), the major failure reason is galling. Galling is a process of different wear stages that leads to destruction of both the forming tool and the sheet metal working piece and is, because of that, of big economic importance for the SMF industries. Therefore, investigations and researches about how tool steels microstructure affect the tool steels galling resistance is ...

In this study, we made an attempt to synthesize doped bioactive hydroxyapatite (HAp) ceramic powder using a simple Chemical method and studied its physical and mechanical properties. Different quantities (2wt% and 5 wt%) of Magnesium chloride Hexahydrate , Zinc oxide, Titanium oxide were incorporated as dopants into Hap at the time of synthesis. The synthesized powder samples were analyzed for ...

The effect of sintering process parameters on the properties of 3 mol% yttria partially stability zirconia (3Y-PSZ) ceramics has been investigated. The relative density of the sintered pellet rapidly increases from 70.5 to 93.6 % with rose temperature from 1473 to 1573 K. In addition, the relative density only slightly increases from 94.9 to 96.6 %, when rose sintered temperature from 1573 to 1...

In this paper, synthesised nanometre sized hydroxyapatite (nano-HAP) powders composed of spherical 30 ± 5 nm part icles were compacted and sintered at temperatures ranging from 650 to 1250°C to form ceramics of varying porosity and mechanical strength. The size, crystalline structure and morphology of both the synthesised nano-HAP particle powders and the compacted and sintered ceramics were in...