Itacolumite like High Damping Ceramics in the System Al2O3-TiO2-MgO

摘要

Ceramics is rigid and brittle originally. If the weakness could be overcome, the application will be widely expanded. Itacolumite known as high flexibility rock is the group of sand stone which consist of quartz and slight amount of muscovite. The microstructure of itacolumite has a lot of narrow gaps between the grains, the gap was thought to be formed by the dissolution of minerals in between quartz grains into the groundwater. This narrow space enables a little displacement of the particles, and the rock can bend with stress like plastic deformation. These characters of itacolumite showed the new ceramic functions such as stress relaxation properties and high damping capacity (internal friction Q–1=0.03). The authors tried to develop high damping ceramics by the mimic of itacolumite, and found the Al2O3-TiO2-MgO ceramics. The ceramics had stress relaxation properties and high damping capacity (Q–1=0.01) since microcracks were formed during sintering by the discontinuous grain growth and the anisotropic thermal expansion in the cooling process.