High hardness α-Si3N4 ceramics reinforced by rod-like β-Si3N4 seed particles

Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan

Volumn 108, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 646-649

  Kitayama, Mikito ^a   Hirao, Kiyoshi ^b   Toriyama, Motohiro ^b   Kanzaki, Shuzo ^b  

^a Fine Ceramics Research Association   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Additive; Hardness; Seed; Silicon nitride

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; HARDNESS; LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; SINTERING; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TOUGHNESS;

LANTHANUM OXIDE; TAPE CASTING;

SILICON NITRIDE;

EID: 0034224831     PISSN: 09145400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2109/jcersj.108.1259_646     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. F. F. Lange, J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 56, 518-22 (1973).
2. A. G. Evans, Treat, on Mater. Sci. and Tech., 16, 1-68 (1979).
3. S. Wada, N. Watanabe and T. Tani, J. Ceram. Soc. Japan (Seramikkusu Ronbunshi), 96, 111-18 (1988).
4. D. Chakraborty and J. Mukerji, Mater. Res. Bull., 17, 843-49 (1982).
5. G. Z. Cao and R. Metselaar, Chem. Mater., 3, 242-52 (1991).
6. H. Zhao, S. P. Swenser and Y.-B. Cheng, J. Eur. Ceram. Soc., 18, 1053-57 (1997).
7. I.-W. Chen and A. Rosenflanz, Nature (London), 389, 701-04 (1997).
8. S. Wada and Y. Ukyo, Proc. of the 34th Japan Congress on Materials Research (1991) pp. 29-33.
9. I. Tanaka, S. Nasu, H. Adachi, Y. Miyamoto and K. Niihara, Acta Metall. Mater., 40, 1995 (1992).
10. C. Greskovich and G. E. Gazza, J. Mater. Sci. Lett., 4, 195-96 (1985).
11. M. Kitayama, K. Hirao, M. Toriyama and S. Kanzaki, unpublished work (2000).
12. K. Hirao, T. Nagaoka, M. E. Brito and S. Kanzaki, J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 77, 1857-62 (1994).
13. K. Hirao, M. Ohashi, M. E. Brito and S. Kanzaki, J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 78, 1687-90 (1995).
14. K. Hirao, A. Tsuge, M. E. Brito and S. Kanzaki, J. Ceram. Soc. Japan, 101, 1071-73 (1993).
15. C. P. Gazzara and D. R. Messier, Am. Ceram. Soc. Bull., 56, 777-80 (1977).
16. M. Kitayama, K. Hirao, M. Toriyama and S. Kanzaki, Acta Mater., 46, 6551-57 (1998).
17. P. F. Becher, J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 74, 255-69 (1991).