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The effect of grain growth on hardness in hot-pressed silicon carbides

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  1. The use of specific materials in this study in no way implies their official endorsement from the authors or their institutions or that they are necessarily the best material for its purposes.

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Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank ORNL’s O. Cavin and S. Waters for their assistance with the XRD and SEM, ORNL’s J. Braden for the tile sectioning, ORNL’s T. Geer for the metallography, and Cercom’s R. Palicka for his helpful comments. Additionally, the authors thank ORNL’s P. Becher, M. Ferber, B. Hickey, S. Nunn, USARL’s J. Swab, and NIST’s G. D. Quinn for their reviews or for their helpful comments and suggestions.

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    Andrew A. Wereszczak & Hua-Tay Lin

  2. Survivability Materials Branch, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, 21005, USA

    Gary A. Gilde

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Research sponsored by WFO sponsor US Army Tank-Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with UT-Battelle, LLC.

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Wereszczak, A.A., Lin, HT. & Gilde, G.A. The effect of grain growth on hardness in hot-pressed silicon carbides. J Mater Sci 41, 4996–5000 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-006-0110-z

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