Composite materials toughened with t-ZrO2 are used in the mechanical engineering because its fracture behaviour may control by structural transformation. In this work was studied the behaviour of some materials, with tialite and zirconium oxide in correlation with thermal phases diagram of quaternary CeO2-ZrO2-Al2O3-TiO2 system. In this paper was showed that may obtain the composite materials constituted by Al2TiO5 and t-ZrO2 at the relative low temperatures. By the reaction between zirconium titanate and corundum and t-ZrO2 and Al2O3 forms the tialite, a compound that assure to samples a good resistance at thermal shock.

 

 

 

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