“…Spongy iron, ground ferromanganese, and water-atomized tin-bronze powders were provided by Höganäs AB, Höganäs, Sweden, ESAB, Katowice, Poland and Neochimie, Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône, France, respectively. The powder mixture contained 12 wt.% Mn, 6.4 wt.% Cu, 1.6 wt.% Sn, and 0.6 wt.% C and was prepared as described in [ 15 , 16 ]. The powders SiC (F320 series, Washington Mills Electro Minerals, Manchester, England, UK), Al 2 O 3 (EF-320 series, Stanchem Sp.zoo, Niemce, Poland), and ZrO 2 (Yttria-stabilized Zirconia Powder (3-YSZ) GRADE 16, HC Starck, Goslar, Germany) were used as ceramic phases to modify the material.…”