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Spark plasma sintering and a standard sintering method are used to manufacture ceramic plates with a diameter of 30 mm from aluminum oxide powder with a fraction size approximately equal to 3 µm. Dynamic strength of the ceramics obtained is studied. Dynamic loading is carried out by a hardened steel impactor. It is shown that energy dissipation in a material obtained using spark plasma sintering is substantially larger than that in a material produced using standard sintering, which means that it is more resistant to dynamic loads.
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This study was financially supported by the Ministry of Science and Education of the Russian Federation within the framework of the state task No. 11.1114.2017/PCh.
Original Russian Text © A.M. Bragov, V.N. Chuvil’deev, N.V. Melekhin, M.S. Boldin, V.V. Balandin, A.V. Nokhrin, A.A. Popov.
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Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 61, No. 3, pp. 207–214, May–June, 2020.
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Bragov, A.M., Chuvil’deev, V.N., Melekhin, N.V. et al. Experimental Study of Dynamic Strength of Aluminum Oxide Based Fine-Grained Ceramics Obtained by Spark Plasma Sintering. J Appl Mech Tech Phy 61, 494–500 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021894420030220
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