Microstructure and mechanical properties of the spark plasma sintered TaC/SiC composites: Effects of sintering temperatures

Journal of the European Ceramic Society

Volumn 32, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 3617-3625

  Liu, Han ^a   Liu, Limeng ^a   Ye, Feng ^a   Zhang, Zhiguo ^a   Zhou, Yu ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Mechanical properties; Microstructure; Spark plasma sintering; Tantalum carbides

Indexed keywords

ELONGATED GRAINS; MICROSTRUCTURE AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MICROSTRUCTURES AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MULTI-GRAIN; SI DIFFUSION; SIC GRAINS; SIC PARTICLES; SINTERING TEMPERATURES; SPARK PLASMA; THEORETICAL DENSITY;

ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; MICROSTRUCTURE; SILICON CARBIDE; SPARK PLASMA SINTERING; TANTALUM; TANTALUM CARBIDE;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 84862699887     PISSN: 09552219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2012.04.042     Document Type: Article

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