Investigation of fracture behavior of cement-bonded corundum castables using wedge splitting test and digital image correlation method

Autor: Baokuan Li, Liping Pan, Yajie Dai, Tianbin Zhu, Qinghu Wang, Xiaofeng Xu, Zhu He, Yawei Li
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Journal of the European Ceramic Society. 40:1728-1737
ISSN: 0955-2219
Popis: To investigate the fracture behavior of cement-bonded corundum castables, various cement contents and pre-treating temperatures have been comparatively studied using the wedge splitting method and the digital image correlation technique. The results show that the microstructure enhances the mechanical properties, so the fracture energy and the maximum load as well as the fracture modes are affected correspondingly. The castables demonstrate the highest fracture energy and maximum load at 1600 °C with cement content of 10 wt% due to an appropriate amount of CA6. At the temperatures of 110 and 1100 °C, the crack propagation within the matrix and along the interface are dominated whereas within the aggregates significantly increased at 1600 °C, leading to the brittleness of materials. However, increasing the cement content can reduce their brittleness, caused by the maximum strain in thex-direction, largest length of the main crack, and high ratio of crack propagation in the matrix.
Databáze: OpenAIRE