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Influence of processing on the microstructural evolution and multiscale hardness in titanium carbonitrides (TiCN) produced via field assisted sintering technology

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Wolfe, DE; DeSalle, CM; Ryan, CJ; Slapikas, RE; Sweny, RT; Crealese, RJ; Kolonin, PA; Stepanoff, SP; Haque, A; Divilov, S; Eckert, H; Oses, C ...
Published in: Materialia
March 1, 2023

Titanium carbonitride (TiCN) is an advanced, high-performance hard ceramic of great commercial importance that has been widely developed and employed. Nonetheless, it has only been in recent years that binderless titanium carbonitride bulk ceramics have been successfully fabricated using field-assisted sintering technology (FAST). However, the underlying structure-processing-property-performance relationships have yet to be fully evaluated, especially concerning indentation hardness of these materials across a broad range of loads and deformation length scales. In this work we aim to address these fundamental relationships and characterize the multiscale hardness phenomena in detail. It was found that the effects of soak temperature and time directly impacted the sintered microstructure and were reflected in the observed mechanical properties over various loads. Valuable insight into the load-dependence of hardness distributions, sensitivity/correlation with elastoplastic parameters, and multiscale parameterization were developed using micro-/nanoindentation. Particularly, the load-dependent hardness sensitivity and resolvability demonstrate a fundamental tradeoff with respect to the manifested mechanical response influenced by the presence of underlying heterogeneities. These new insights relating the interplay of compositional/microstructural evolution with FAST processing parameters and multiscale hardness are an important step in advancing next-generation hard ceramics.

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Materialia

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2589-1529

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March 1, 2023

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27

Related Subject Headings

  • 4016 Materials engineering
  • 3403 Macromolecular and materials chemistry
 

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Wolfe, D. E., DeSalle, C. M., Ryan, C. J., Slapikas, R. E., Sweny, R. T., Crealese, R. J., … Curtarolo, S. (2023). Influence of processing on the microstructural evolution and multiscale hardness in titanium carbonitrides (TiCN) produced via field assisted sintering technology. Materialia, 27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtla.2023.101682
Wolfe, D. E., C. M. DeSalle, C. J. Ryan, R. E. Slapikas, R. T. Sweny, R. J. Crealese, P. A. Kolonin, et al. “Influence of processing on the microstructural evolution and multiscale hardness in titanium carbonitrides (TiCN) produced via field assisted sintering technology.” Materialia 27 (March 1, 2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtla.2023.101682.
Wolfe DE, DeSalle CM, Ryan CJ, Slapikas RE, Sweny RT, Crealese RJ, Kolonin PA, Stepanoff SP, Haque A, Divilov S, Eckert H, Oses C, Esters M, Brenner DW, Fahrenholtz WG, Maria JP, Toher C, Zurek E, Curtarolo S. Influence of processing on the microstructural evolution and multiscale hardness in titanium carbonitrides (TiCN) produced via field assisted sintering technology. Materialia. 2023 Mar 1;27.
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Published In

Materialia

DOI

EISSN

2589-1529

Publication Date

March 1, 2023

Volume

27

Related Subject Headings

  • 4016 Materials engineering
  • 3403 Macromolecular and materials chemistry