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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY
Volume 103, Issue 1, Pages 491-499Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jace.16686
Keywords
fracture toughness; glass ceramic; hafnium; SEPB; silicon oxycarbide; zirconium
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- FP7 Ideas: European Research Council [320506]
- German Science Foundation [IO 64/7-1]
- European Research Council (ERC) [320506] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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Four different SiOC glass ceramics were synthesized and their fracture toughness (K-Ic) and fracture surface energy (gamma) were assessed by means of the single-edge precracked beam (SEPB) method. In addition, the elastic moduli were measured and the Vickers indentation behavior (hardness and microcracking) was characterized. In particular, the dependence of K-Ic on the free carbon content and on the fraction of crystallized nanoparticles (SiC, ZrO2, HfO2) was investigated. An increase in K-Ic, from about 0.73 to 0.99 MPa root m is observed as the free carbon content is increased from less than 1 to 12 vol%. The addition of Hf and Zr (resulting in 4.5 to 7.8 vol% HfO2 and ZrO2 nanoparticles) was found to increase K-Ic to an extent similar to the free carbon content. Moreover, predicted K-Ic values, assuming that the crack travels through all phases accounting for their respective volume fractions, disrupting the weakest links within the structural units, are in agreement with the experimental values.
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