Ceramics, Volume 3, Issue 3

Refractory materials are subjected to thermomechanical loads during their working life, and consequent creep strain and stress relaxation are often observed. In this work, the asymmetric high temperature primary and secondary creep behavior of a mate...

Fly ash or coal fly ash causes major global pollution in the form of solid waste and is classified as a “hazardous waste”, which is a by-product of thermal power plants produced during electricity production. Si, Al, Fe Ca, and Mg alone f...

Ultra-high temperature ceramic composites have been widely investigated due to their improved sinterability and superior mechanical properties compared to monolithic ceramics. In this work, high-entropy boron-carbide ceramic/SiC composites with diffe...

In this study, 5Y-PSZ-based ceramics with 15 mol.% of manganese oxide were obtained from PSZ + MnO₂ powders mixtures by pressing and direct firing. The resulting materials show a stable cubic fluorite structure with only minor traces of segregated ma...

The Ceramics journal has reached its first milestone with the publication of the 100th paper since its creation in 2018 [...]

In this study, titanium carbide was obtained by low-temperature pressureless (at pressure less than 1 MPa) sintering of a mixture of elementary titanium and graphite powders in a hot-pressing plant with a preliminary mechanical treatment of the initi...

Chemically and thermally stable ceramics are required for many applications. Many characteristics (electrochemical stability, high thermomechanical properties, etc.) directly or indirectly imply the use of refractory materials. Many devices require t...

Boron carbide is an extremely hard and lightweight material used in armor systems. Upon impact above the Hugoniot elastic limit (HEL), boron carbide loses strength and suddenly fails. Atomistic models suggest that boron-rich boron carbides could miti...

The present paper reported a novel approach for the fabrication of a high-aspect ratio (K, Na)NbO₃ (KNN) piezoelectric micropillar array via epoxy gelcasting, which involves the in situ consolidation of aqueous KNN suspensions with added hydantoin ep...

The main issue to tune controlled devices by the application of a DC magnetic field comes up against the high value of the field’s intensity required for their implementation. This work presents an implementation of magneto-dielectric materials...

In the field of metal matrix composites (MMC), spark plasma sintering (SPS) technique has been used so far for the manufacture of particle, whisker and short-fiber reinforced alloys. In this work, SPS technique is employed for the first time to produ...