Abstract:
The invention relates to the field of technical ceramics and specifically relates to a method of synthesis for aluminum oxides of different crystalline structure and to the products obtained by said method. The aim of the invention is to provide a method of producing redispersible nanoparticulate corundum and nanoporous Al2O3 sintered products, said method using precursors and being viable on a commercial scale. To this aim, inter alia, a method of producing redispersible nanoparticulate corundum of an average particle size of D50
Abstract:
The invention relates to oxide ceramic fibre reinforced material which is used according to the invention in energy conversion installations. The aim of the invention is to create a fundamentally new concept which meets requirements which have been, until now, totally incompatible, i.e. improve brittle fracture behaviour in order to secure thermal shock stability and damage tolerance in the temperature range of /= 150 mu m, also having a mesoscopically resistant fibre/matrix interface at high temperatures along the length of the axis of the fibre. Said fibre/matrix interface can be subjected to temperatures above room temperature accompanied by propagations of microfissures exhibiting delaminations which are microspcoically localised in their length along the axis of the fibre and which remain at a value smaller than the average fibre coherence length being limited to a maximum of 200 mu m. The invention also aims at using the inventive fibre reinforced material for thermal and/or long-term stressed components and/or installations.
Abstract:
The invention relates to ceramics and concerns Al2O3 sintering materials made from corundum powder, a process for the production of the said materials and their use as, for example, human implants or as a material for tools. According to the invention, high-grade, low-defect Al2O3 sintering materials with very high degrees of hardness or high degrees of hardness and strength are produced containing 95-100 vol.% Al2O3 and a Vickers micro hardness of » 2000 at a test load of 10-100 N; these sintering materials have a relative sinter density δ » 98.5 %, grain structure with a mean grain size of « 1.5 νm and inhomogeneities which occur with a frequency of