Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2011
The conditions of in ultrasound (US) transmission through a nanodispersed powder (NP) and possible effects of US-action at compacting of NP ZrO2 − Y2O3 are analyzed. These effLcts include agglomerate crushing, NP particle activation under the conditions of acoustic flows; dense NP compacting with the preservation of a compact nanostructure in the absence of acoustic flows. It was shown that the result of 13S action was dcfined by the compacting pressure P and ItS intensity level I, the values of which were divided into the ranges by the critical parameters PC and IC NP transfers from the state of gas-dispersed medium to the state of a solid porous body at P = PC, and IC characterizes the threshold of acoustic flows appearance in the powder body.