Alumina Ceramic Texturing Induced by High Magnetic Field and its Microstructure

Abstract:

Various textured alumina ceramics were prepared by colloidal processing in high magnetic field and heating from alumina powder as raw material in this study. The effects of the magnetic field strength, heating time and heating temperature on the particle orientation were systematically examined for these samples with scanning electron microscope (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) etc. The experimental results showed that alumina grains are polyhedral ball shape of, no textured structure exists in the sintered bodies without magnetic field treatment; the alumina grains align with the c-axis parallel the magnetic field direction under high magnetic field, the grains present strip shape in the sintered alumina bodies with the magnetic field treatment; the particle orientation degree increases with increasing the heating time and heating temperature; when the sintering temperature achieves about 1823K, the textured microstructure can be obviously observed in the sintered alumina bodies.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 512-515)
• Pages: 339-343
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.512-515.339
• Online since: June 2012
• Authors: Lin Feng Xu, Yun Feng Li, An Ze Shui, Yan Min Wang
• Keywords: Alumina, High Magnetic Field, Orientation Degree, Slip Casting, Texturing

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