Abstract
Mechanical properties(flexural strength hardness fracture toughness) of alumina ceramics were evaluated. Alumina products of four companies were selected and three of those were made in Korea and one of those was made in Japan. The large differences according to manufacturing companies had resulted from flexural strength and weibull modulus which had a wide ranges of 300 to 400 MPa and 5 to 15 respectively. Critical indenstation load which could be neglected the effect of elastic recovery was about 9.8N and Vickers' hardness were about 15 GPa. Fracture toughnesses were evaluated by IF and ISB method. It was more preferable to the average at one indentation load that fracture toughness were obtained from the slope of the relationship between indentation load and crack length in IF method and between indentation load and fracture load in ISB method and fracture toughness was about 4 MPa·m1/2.
알루미나를 대상소재로 하여 국산 3종 및 일산 1종의 고순도 알루미나 제품을 구입하여 꺾임강도, 비커스 경도, 압자압입법 및 압입강도법에 의한 파괴인성 등의 기계적 물성을 평가하였다. 꺾임강도 및 와이블 계수는 제조회사에 따라 각각 약 300~400MPa, 5~15의 범위에서 큰 편차를 나타내었다. 압입하중 변화에 따른 경도시험시 탄성회복의 영향을 무시할 수 있는 임계하중은 약 9.8N이었으며, 압입하중 98N에서의 알루미나의 경도는 약 15GPa이었다. 파괴인성은 한 압입하중에서의 측정한 평균값으로 파괴인성을 구하는 것보다 압자압입법의 경우 압입하중과 균열길이, 압입강도법의 경우 압입하중과 꺾임강도와 관계식의 기울기로부터 각각 직선회기법으로 파괴인성을 구하는 것이 보다 신뢰성이 있으며, 알루미나의 파괴인성은 약 4 MPa·m1/2이었다.