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Effect of post-sintering heat-treatments on the erosive wear behaviour of liquid-phase-sintered aluminas

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The influence of microstructure on the indentation-strength and solidparticle erosive wear behaviour of a liquid-phase-sintered (LPS)alumina subjected to coarsening, quenching and crystallisationheat-treatments were investigated. Strength as a function of cracksize using Vickers indentations of varying loads was assessed. Theshort-crack toughness curves (T-curves) of the materials wereevaluated from indentation-strength data which is pertinent to wearproperties, since wear is governed by fracture characteristics atsmall flaw sizes. The effects of impact angle and particle velocityon erosive wear rates were also analysed. The relationship betweenshort-crack toughness behaviour and erosion resistance are discussedwith reference to the material microstructures and phase composition.

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Latella, B.A., O'connor, B.H. Effect of post-sintering heat-treatments on the erosive wear behaviour of liquid-phase-sintered aluminas. Journal of Materials Science 35, 3505–3517 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004845009403

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