Room temperature fracture toughness and hardness of spark plasma sintered pure B 4 C
ceramics with grain sizes ranging from 120 nm to 17 μm have been studied. Vickers …

A new ceramic sintering approach employing plastic deformation as the dominant
mechanism is proposed, at low temperature close to the onset point of grain growth and …

Toughening of super-hard B4C ceramics with ultra-fine grained microstructures via the
addition of SiC (15wt.%) or the simultaneous addition of SiC (15wt.%) and graphite (2wt.%) …

Spark plasma sintering (SPS) parameters are reported to have a remarkable effect on
microstructure and fracture toughness of boron carbide. Fully dense fine-grained boron …

The unique combination of SiC properties opens the ways for a wide range of SiC-based
industrial applications. Dense silicon carbide bodies (3.18±0.01 g/cm3) were obtained by an …

The ballistic reliability of composite armors is significantly affected by the random material
properties. In this paper, the mosaic SiC ceramics/ultra high molecular weight polyethylene …

Lightweight polycrystalline ceramics possess promising physical, chemical, and mechanical
properties, which can be used in a variety of important structural applications. However …

Nano-structured transparent polycrystalline magnesium aluminate spinel (PMAS) was
fabricated using a high pressure (up to 1000 MPa) spark plasma sintering (HPSPS) …

The application of ceramics in composite armour requires the investigation on the failure
and fracture mechanisms of the ceramics under dynamic loading. In this study, the split …

A unique combination of high-energy ball-milling, annealing, and spark-plasma sintering
has been used to process superhard B 4 C ceramics with ultrafine-grained, dense …