Artículo
Does grain size have an influence on intrinsic mechanical properties and conduction mechanism of near fully-dense boron carbide ceramics?
Autor/es | Moshtaghion, Bibi Malmal
Laguna Bercero, Miguel Ángel Gómez García, Diego Peña, José I. |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada |
Fecha de publicación | 2019 |
Fecha de depósito | 2023-02-09 |
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Resumen | This work is concentrated on getting a reply to the following question: how does the grain size of boron carbide specimens influence on their mechanical and electrical response? It is a common issue that both essential ... This work is concentrated on getting a reply to the following question: how does the grain size of boron carbide specimens influence on their mechanical and electrical response? It is a common issue that both essential properties are usually affected by the grain boundaries. To this purpose, a set of near fully-dense boron carbide specimens were prepared by spark plasma sintering. In order to reduce residual porosity and grain-size effects, nanoindentation tests at room temperature were conducted. DC conductivity was measured through four-point test technique from room temperature up to 800 °C. The results show that hardness can reach values as high as ∼60 GPa and plasticity onset takes place at around 23 GPa by dislocation nucleation. Regarding the conductivity, it is found that grain boundaries can block the mobility of bipolarons in an effective way. A simple additive law is provided to account for the resistivity of boron carbide polycrystals. |
Agencias financiadoras | Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO). España |
Identificador del proyecto | MAT2016-77769-R
MAT2015-71411-R |
Cita | Moshtaghion, B.M., Laguna Bercero, M.Á., Gómez García, D. y Peña, J.I. (2019). Does grain size have an influence on intrinsic mechanical properties and conduction mechanism of near fully-dense boron carbide ceramics?. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 795, 408-415. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2019.05.037. |
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