Determination of Local Mechanical Properties of Si₃N₄ Based Foams

Abstract:

Local mechanical properties, particularly the hardness and Youngs modulus of highly porous silicon nitride based foams were studied in this work. Silicon nitride foams were prepared using polyurethane foam replication method to obtain appropriate cellular structure suitable for bio-application. Two types of the polyurethane foams were used (with average pore size 0.48 mm and 0.62 mm). Some of these samples were prepared by single or multiple infiltrations. The effects of structures, temperature of calcination, volume fraction of Si₃N₄ powder and number of the infiltrations on the local mechanical properties were investigated. The Youngs modulus of studied samples range from 12 to 46 GPa at the macroscopic scale measured by resonant frequency technique and from 10 to 28 GPa at the microscopic scale measured by instrumented indentation. Results showed increase of the hardness and Youngs modulus with increasing of the calcination temperature, with increasing of the number of infiltrations and also with increasing of volume fraction of Si₃N₄ powder in suspension. The results obtained from nanoindentation carry out lower values in comparison with the values measured by resonant frequency technique.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 606)
• Pages: 213-216
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.606.213
• Online since: March 2014
• Authors: Zuzana Vilčeková*, Monika Kašiarová, Magdaléna Domanická, Miroslav Hnatko, Pavol Šajgalík
• Keywords: Foams, Hardness, Mechanical Property, Silicon Nitride, Young's Modulus

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