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Residual Stress Generation During Constrained Sintering Of Layered Ceramic Thin Film Structures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

E. P. Busso ,
R. P. Travis  and
L. Chandra
E. P. Busso
Affiliation:
Mechanical Engineering Department, Imperial College, London SW7 2BX, United Kingdom
R. P. Travis
Affiliation:
Mechanical Engineering Department, Imperial College, London SW7 2BX, United Kingdom
L. Chandra
Affiliation:
Mechanical Engineering Department, Imperial College, London SW7 2BX, United Kingdom
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Abstract

This work investigates the sintering kinetics and residual stresses which develop in thin layered ceramic structures when sintered on a rigid substrate. A continuum constitutive framework to model the evolution of the microstructure and stresses in the sintering layers under non-isothermal conditions is presented. The sintering model is used to investigate the constrained sintering behaviour of layered ceramic structures used in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC). Samples of a 50 μm thick SOFC film were screen-printed on a fully dense yttriastabilised zirconia substrate and then sintered at temperatures ranging from 1100°C to 1300°C. Measured values of relative density and average grain size are compared with model predictions. A correlation between residual stresses extracted from curvature measurements and analytical predictions revealed these stresses to have been mostly relieved during the subsequent cooling by microcrack formation.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 505 , 1997 , 547
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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