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Fracture mechanism maps for advanced structural ceramics

Part 2 Sintered silicon nitride

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The static fatigue behaviour of a commercial sintered silicon nitride with yttria and alumina sintering aids was controlled by slow crack growth or creep fracture. A fracture map depicts the stress-temperature regimes where each mechanism is dominant. Devitrification of the grain boundary phase at intermediate temperatures (1000 and 1100 °C) radically altered the static fatigue resistance. The principal devitrification products in the high tensile stressed regions were (δ-Y2Si2O7 and N apatite, although some residual glass was still present. The static fatigue and creep resistances at higher temperatures (>1200 °C) are limited by both the residual glassy phase and the δ)-Y2Si2O7.

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Quinn, G.D., Braue, W.R. Fracture mechanism maps for advanced structural ceramics. J Mater Sci 25, 4377–4392 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00581097

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