Journal
CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL
Volume 42, Issue 15, Pages 16961-16968Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2016.07.201
Keywords
Particle size; Monoclinic zirconia; Property; Alumina-spinel castable
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- Education Bureau of Hubei Province [D20141103]
- Ministry of Science and Technology, P.R. China [2014CB660802]
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The industrial application of alumina-spinel refractory castables has crucial requirements on the service performance. Thus, the effects of different sized desilicated zirconia particles on the castables microstructure, thermal-mechanical properties and high temperature elastic modulus have been investigated. The zirconia particle sizes were varied from 1000 mu m to 2.5 mu m (d(50)). It was observed that (t)he finer (below 88 mu m) zirconia particles were beneficial to improve the cold modulus of rupture (CMOR) and the hot modulus of rupture (HMOR), but could not effectively enhance the thermal shock resistance. Fine zirconia particles can homogeneously disperse in (t)he matrix and significantly promote the sintering process. Accompanied with the phase transformation of zirconia, both the high density of matrix cracks and the strong ceramic bonding (between the coarse grains and the matrix) were found in the refractory castables, which was responsible for an increase of CMOR. However, the binding characteristic could also give rise to the high stored elastic energy that was adverse to the thermal shock resistance, and the excessive amount of preexisting matrix cracks could induce more microdamage during the thermal shock. Additionally, it was proposed that the second-phase dispersion reinforcement and the highly ceramics bonding resulted in the superior HMOR when introducing fine ZrO2 particles. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd and Techna Group S.r.l. All rights reserved.
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