Abstract
High-density ceramics of ceria doped with 0, 3, 5, 10, 15 and 20 mol.% Gd and with grain sizes exceeding 1.5 μm were investigated by nanoindentation. The deduced elastic moduli are independent of Gd content and remain close to the value reported for bulk ceramics (210 ± 5% GPa). All ceramics exhibit transient creep with displacement proportional to the 1/3 power of the time. For 0.05 < x < 0.2, the derived creep magnitude parameter decreases linearly with increasing Gd content. These results strongly suggest that defect rearrangement influences the measurements.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 155-158 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Scripta Materialia |
Volume | 66 |
Issue number | 3-4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 2012 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:I.L. and S.K. wish to thank the US–Israel Binational Science Foundation for funding this research. The research is also made possible in part by the generosity of the Harold Perlman Family. We also acknowledge support of the G.M.J. Schmidt Minerva Center for Supramolecular Architectures.
Keywords
- Creep rate
- Elastic modulus
- Gd-doped ceria
- Nanoindentation