Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-vdxz6 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-29T07:47:40.248Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Gel-Based Processing of Glass-Ceramic Particulate Composites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2011

James C. Walck*
Affiliation:
U.S. Army Materials Technology Laboratory, Water town, MA 02172
Get access

Abstract

Glass-ceramic composites were successfully fabricated by incorporating amorphous lithium aluminosi Iicate (LAS) particulates into a silica gel matrix. LAS volumes in the composites were varied from 50 to 75%, and all composites were easily cast, dried and fired without segregation or cracking. Elevated temperature processing resulted in crystallization of the LAS into a P-spodumene solid solution phase as well as densification of the gel-derived glass matrix. An inverse relationship was found between densification efficiency and LAS volume percent.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1988

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Pope, E.J. and Mackenzie, J.D. in Tailoring Multiphase and Composite Ceramics, edited by Tressler, R.E., Messing, G.L., Pantano, C.G. and Newnham, R.E. (Plenum Press Publishers, New York, 1986) p. 187.Google Scholar
2. Lannutti, J.J. and Clark, D.E. in Better Ceramics Through Chemistry, edited by Brinker, C.J., Clark, D.E. and Ulrich, D.R. (Mater. Res. Soc. Proc. 32, Pittsburgh, PA 1984) pp. 375381.Google Scholar
3. Qi, D. and Pantano, C.G., in Ultrastructure Processing of Ceramics, Glasses and Composites, edited by Mackenzie, J.D. and Ulrich, D.R. (John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1988).Google Scholar
4. Walck, J.C., presented at 12th Annual Conference on Composites and Advanced Ceramics, Cocoa Beach, FL 1988 (to be published in Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings).Google Scholar