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.