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Creep Resistance of the Directionally Solidified Ceramic Eutectic of Al2O3/c-ZrO2(Y2O3)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Jin Yi ,
Ali S. Argon  and
Ali Sayir
Jin Yi
Affiliation:
Mechanical Engineering Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, U.S.A.
Ali S. Argon
Affiliation:
Mechanical Engineering Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, U.S.A.
Ali Sayir
Affiliation:
NASA - John Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH, 44135
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Abstract

The creep resistance of the directionally solidified ceramic eutectic of Al2O3/c-ZrO2(Y2O3) was studied in the temperature range of 1200–1520°C both experimentally and by mechanistic dislocation models. The creep of the eutectic in its growth direction exhibits an initial transient that is attributed to stress relaxation in the c-ZrO2(Y2O3) phase, but otherwise in steady state shows many of the same characteristics of creep in sapphire single crystals with c-axis orientation. The creep strain rate of the eutectic has stress exponents in the range of 4.5–5.0 and a temperature dependence suggesting a rate mechanism governed by oxygen ion diffusion in the Al2O3. A detailed dislocation model of the creep rate indicates that much of the nano-scale encapsulated c-ZrO2(Y2O3) is too small to deform by creep so that the major contribution to the recorded creep strain is derived from the diffusion-controlled climb of pyramidal edge dislocations in the Al2O3 phase. The evidence suggests that the climbing dislocations in Al2O3 must repeatly circumvent the c-ZrO2(Y2O3) domains acting as dispersoids resulting in the stress exponents larger than 3. The creep model is in very good agreement with the experiments.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 791: Symposium Q – Mechanical Properties of Nanostructured Materials and Nanocomposites , 2003 , Q7.12
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2004

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