ZrO2-Al2TiO5 composite materials with high bending strength and good thermal shock resistance expansion were prepared using partially stabilized zirconia (Y-PSZ) powders coated with Al2TiO5 by co-precipitation method. The effects of Al2TiO5 content on the sintering properties, phase composition, microstructure and thermal shock resistance of the zirconia ceramic were investigated.The results show that the apparent porosity of the samples decreased and their bending strength increased with the content of aluminum titanate increasing from 0 to 8 wt%. The samples with 5 and 8 wt% aluminum titanate addtion have excellent thermal shock resistance. The results showed that the addtion of aluminum titanate could enhance the mechanical strength and improve the thermal shock resistance of zirconia ceramic. The XRD and SEM analysis results indicated that the propriety improvement is relative with the change of the microstructure and the increase of tetragonal ZrO2 phase in the composites.
The periclase-hercynite brick performance after different re-firing cycles was researched under different atmosphere. The results are shown that under the oxidizing atmosphere, the brick after re-firing would lead to the mutual diffusion of iron ions in both magnesium substrate and hercynite particles, which would further lead to ring cracks around hercynite. After the brick was re-firing at CO atmosphere, the mutual diffusion of magnesium and iron ions was even more severe, which formed magnitude of magnesia-hercynites and magnalium spinels. SEM results are shown that the porous structure around the hercynite could damage more severe.
Buckling behavior of functionally graded materials cylindrical shell under pure bending is studied in this paper. The stability equations of functionally graded materials cylindrical shell are derived using the classical plate and shell theory with Kirchhoff hypothesis, importing the bending boundary condition to obtain the critical buckling load. The result shows that the critical moment is linear with the radius, quadratic with the thickness and irrelevant with the length of the cylindrical shell. In addition, the critical moment is decreased by increasing the power law index of the material bulk, trending to a constant finally.
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