Spark plasma sintering of magnesia-doped alumina with high hardness and fracture toughness

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 203-208

  Chakravarty, Dibyendu ^a   Bysakh, Sandip ^b   Muraleedharan, Kuttanellore ^b   Rao, Tata Narasinga ^a   Sundaresan, Ranganathan ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL ADVANCED RESEARCH CENTRE FOR POWDER METALLURGY AND NEW MATERIALS ARCI   (India)

^b DEFENCE METALLURGICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; HARDNESS; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; MAGNESIA; OPTIMIZATION; SPARK PLASMA SINTERING;

DENSITY LEVELS;

ALUMINA;

EID: 37849004495     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: 15512916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2007.02094.x     Document Type: Article

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