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SCRIPTA MATERIALIA
Volume 111, Issue -, Pages 98-101Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.scriptamat.2015.08.023
Keywords
MAX phase; Deformation behaviour; Spark plasma sintering; Textured ceramics
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- Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT), Flanders, Belgium [131081]
- European Atomic Energy Community's (Euratom) [604862]
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This work explored a new method to texture M(n+1)AX(n) phases by deforming discs of dense ceramics Maxthal 211 (R) (nominally Ti2AlC) and Maxthal 312 (R) (nominally Ti3SiC2) in a spark plasma facility. The disc diameter increased by 40% without crack formation. After deformation, the MAX grains exhibited clear preferential crystallographic orientation, whereby the c-axis was aligned to the compression direction. The fracture toughness increased both parallel and perpendicular to the textured top surface compared with the as-sintered materials. The onset of plastic deformation was observed near the brittle-to-plastic transformation temperature, a fact that could be associated with the change in elastic response. (c) 2015 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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