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Microstructure and Crystallization Kinetics of Silica-Based Ceramic Cores with Enhanced High-Temperature Property

Silica-based ceramic cores play key roles in the casting of aeroengine blades, but they are highly limited by the poor high-temperature mechanical property. Here, fused mullite (FM) and sintered mullite (SM) powders were modified in silica-based ceramic cores, and the microstructure evolution and cr...

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Autores principales: Li, Xin, Niu, Shuxin, Wang, Dongsheng, Li, Jie, Jiao, Qi, Guo, Xinlong, Xu, Xiqing
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Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9865690/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36676341
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma16020606
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author Li, Xin
Niu, Shuxin
Wang, Dongsheng
Li, Jie
Jiao, Qi
Guo, Xinlong
Xu, Xiqing
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Niu, Shuxin
Wang, Dongsheng
Li, Jie
Jiao, Qi
Guo, Xinlong
Xu, Xiqing
author_sort Li, Xin
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description Silica-based ceramic cores play key roles in the casting of aeroengine blades, but they are highly limited by the poor high-temperature mechanical property. Here, fused mullite (FM) and sintered mullite (SM) powders were modified in silica-based ceramic cores, and the microstructure evolution and crystallization kinetics of ceramic cores depending on mullite types were studied. The ceramic cores with FM showed a dense microstructure and superior mechanical properties compared to those with SM. The ceramic cores with 10 wt.% of FM showed a crystallization activation energy of 1119.5 kJ/mol and a crystallization exponent of 1.74, and the values of 938.4 kJ/mol and 1.86 as SM were employed; the decreased crystallization activation energy and the elevated crystallization exponent by SM suggested that the excess impurities of alkali oxides and alkaline-earth oxides significantly promoted the crystallization of cristobalite. Even though the ceramic cores with mullite powders decreased slightly in the room-temperature mechanical property, their high-temperature flexure strength and creep deformation resistance were enhanced. The ceramic cores with 10 wt.% of FM showed excellent comprehensive performance, with linear shrinkage of 0.69%, room-temperature strength of 18.9 MPa, and high-temperature strength of 15.5 MPa, which satisfied the demands for hollow-blade casting.
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spelling pubmed-98656902023-01-22 Microstructure and Crystallization Kinetics of Silica-Based Ceramic Cores with Enhanced High-Temperature Property Li, Xin Niu, Shuxin Wang, Dongsheng Li, Jie Jiao, Qi Guo, Xinlong Xu, Xiqing Materials (Basel) Article Silica-based ceramic cores play key roles in the casting of aeroengine blades, but they are highly limited by the poor high-temperature mechanical property. Here, fused mullite (FM) and sintered mullite (SM) powders were modified in silica-based ceramic cores, and the microstructure evolution and crystallization kinetics of ceramic cores depending on mullite types were studied. The ceramic cores with FM showed a dense microstructure and superior mechanical properties compared to those with SM. The ceramic cores with 10 wt.% of FM showed a crystallization activation energy of 1119.5 kJ/mol and a crystallization exponent of 1.74, and the values of 938.4 kJ/mol and 1.86 as SM were employed; the decreased crystallization activation energy and the elevated crystallization exponent by SM suggested that the excess impurities of alkali oxides and alkaline-earth oxides significantly promoted the crystallization of cristobalite. Even though the ceramic cores with mullite powders decreased slightly in the room-temperature mechanical property, their high-temperature flexure strength and creep deformation resistance were enhanced. The ceramic cores with 10 wt.% of FM showed excellent comprehensive performance, with linear shrinkage of 0.69%, room-temperature strength of 18.9 MPa, and high-temperature strength of 15.5 MPa, which satisfied the demands for hollow-blade casting. MDPI 2023-01-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9865690/ /pubmed/36676341 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma16020606 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Li, Xin
Niu, Shuxin
Wang, Dongsheng
Li, Jie
Jiao, Qi
Guo, Xinlong
Xu, Xiqing
Microstructure and Crystallization Kinetics of Silica-Based Ceramic Cores with Enhanced High-Temperature Property
title Microstructure and Crystallization Kinetics of Silica-Based Ceramic Cores with Enhanced High-Temperature Property
title_full Microstructure and Crystallization Kinetics of Silica-Based Ceramic Cores with Enhanced High-Temperature Property
title_fullStr Microstructure and Crystallization Kinetics of Silica-Based Ceramic Cores with Enhanced High-Temperature Property
title_full_unstemmed Microstructure and Crystallization Kinetics of Silica-Based Ceramic Cores with Enhanced High-Temperature Property
title_short Microstructure and Crystallization Kinetics of Silica-Based Ceramic Cores with Enhanced High-Temperature Property
title_sort microstructure and crystallization kinetics of silica-based ceramic cores with enhanced high-temperature property
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9865690/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36676341
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma16020606
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