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Investigation of the thermomechanical properties of industrial refractories: the French programme PROMETHEREF

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This paper summarises the work that has been done in the framework of the French programme PROMETHEREF. This programme was concerned with the thermomechanical properties at high temperature of two industrial refractories: fused-cast materials for glass melting and alumina castables for steel production. At high temperature, both materials exhibit creep, that has been characterised by tension, compression and bending tests. The microstructural mechanisms of deformation have been investigated and allowed the macroscopic viscoplasticity to be understood. Both types of materials exhibit damage processes that have also been characterised mechanically and microstructurally. The nature and the adhesion of the aggregates have been shown to have a great influence on the mechanical behaviour of the castables, as well as the continuous zirconia skeleton observed in high-zirconia fused-cast refractories by X-rays tomography.

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The work related in this paper has been mainly performed by PhD students (Edwige Yeugo-Fogaing, Emilie Lataste, Hicham Marzagui, Kamel Madi, Ludovic Massard, Mohsen Roosefid) under the supervision of senior researchers (Anne Piant, Samuel Forest, Christian Gault, Christian Olagnon, Evariste Ouedraogo, Gilbert Fantozzi, Marc Huger, Thierry Cutard): all of them must be greatly acknowledged. The author, coordinator of this project, also wishes to thank the Ministry of Industry (Michel Mussino), Saint-Gobain CREE (Christophe Bert, Isabelle Cabodi, Michel Gaubil, Yves Boussant-Roux), TRB (Nicolas Prompt, Thierry Joly, Cyrille Deteuf) and EDF (Alain Guyonvarch, Patrick Billard, Yves Dutheillet) for their technical and financial support in this programme.

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Boussuge, M. Investigation of the thermomechanical properties of industrial refractories: the French programme PROMETHEREF. J Mater Sci 43, 4069–4078 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-008-2534-0

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