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Micromechanical Behavior of Silicate Glass Films on Alumina Substrates
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 July 2020
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In polycrystalline liquid-phase sintered (LPS) alumina ceramics, intergranular phases have proved to have a profound effect on mechanical properties such as strength, toughness, plastic deformation, and high-temperature creep. The presence of such intergranular phases, can also influence the kinetics of many processes including sintering, grain growth, and phase transformations. As a result, the key to optimizing the performance of a ceramic material is frequently related to optimizing the properties of these grain boundary regions. In order to understand the interactions between the glass layer and the crystalline grains at a fundamental level, the amorphous material must be placed in contact with the crystalline ceramic as a thin film in a controlled manner. Preparation of such a glass phase in the thin-film geometry has also prompted the use of nontraditional mechanicaltesting techniques.
In the present study, interfaces between silicate glass and single-crystal α-Al2O3 have been studied using AFM and nanoindentation.
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- Scanned Probe Microscopies: Technologies, Methodologies, and Applications
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- Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 3 , Issue S2: Proceedings: Microscopy & Microanalysis '97, Microscopy Society of America 55th Annual Meeting, Microbeam Analysis Society 31st Annual Meeting, Histochemical Society 48th Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, August 10-14, 1997 , August 1997 , pp. 1269 - 1270
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- Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 1997