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High-temperature deformation characteristics of YBa2Cu3O7−x oxide (YBCO) and YBa2Cu3O7−x/Ag composite (YBCO/Ag) in uniaxial compression have been investigated. A compression test was carried out at temperatures from 780–930°C at initial strain rates between 10−6 and 10−4 s−1. YBCO/Ag composites with fine, dense and equiaxed grains were compressed over 120% with no indication of failure at higher temperatures, and the strain-rate sensitivity exponent, m, was found to be about 0.42–0.46 between 890 and 930°C. They are considered to be one indication of superplasticity. The activation energy for deformation was 500–580 KJ mol−1. The specimens suffered grain growth slightly during the deformation at 930°C and the majority of growth might be a function of exposure time, temperature and silver content, but each grain maintained the equiaxed shape after extensive superplastic deformation. This is consistent with a grain-boundary sliding mechanism. The silver at grain boundaries acts to decrease the activation energy for deformation and promote the grain-boundary sliding.
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Kim, BC., Kim, JT. & Song, JT. Superplastic behaviour of YBa2Cu3O7−x/Ag superconductors. Journal of Materials Science 30, 3369–3375 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00349881
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