Abstract
Ceramic materials based on silicon nitride exhibit a greater high temperature strength for temperatures above 1000 °C than conventional super alloys employed at present for turbine engine design. As suitable structural components for high temperature application two groups of Si3N4 materials are of special interest: 1) dense hot-pressed Si3N4 (HPSN) and sintered Si3N4 (SSN) showing strength data between 550 and 900 MN/m2 and 2) reaction-bonded Si3N4 (RBSN) characterized by a residual porosity from 15 to 30% and maximum strength of 350 MN/m2. Further development of dense Si3N4 focuses mainly on the optimization of high-temperature properties. Beside the short-term strength, outstanding properties are the oxidation behavior and the long-term strength under mechanical and cyclic thermal load which can be improved by controlling the microstructure and, in particular, by improving the chemical and structural constitution of the mostly amorphous grain boundary phase. Dense Si3N4 can only be achieved via liquid-phase sintering where in the case of HPSN and SSN MgO, Y2O3 or Y2O3 + A12O3 respectively are usually added as sintering aids. In Fig. 1 the evolution of the liquid-phase sintering process for MgO-fluxed HPSN is demonstrated schematically as proposed by Ref.1. At temperatures below 1400 °C MgO reacts with the amorphous silica layers on the surfaces of α-Si3N4 grains of the starting powder forming magnesium silicate forsterite Mg2SiO4.
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Dudek, H.J., Braue, W., Ziegler, G. (1983). Surface- and Microanalytical Investigations of the Chemical Constitution of the Grain Boundary Phase in Dense Silicon Nitride. In: Grasserbauer, M., Zacherl, M.K. (eds) Progress in Materials Analysis. Mikrochimica Acta, vol 10. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-3943-1_13
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