Abstract
Abstract The poor fracture toughness of La 2 Zr 2 O 7 hinders its practical application as a thermal barrier coating topcoat material. To toughen La 2 Zr 2 O 7 , metastable tetragonal 8 wt% yttria-stabilized zirconia ( t ’-8YSZ), has been introduced into the La 2 Zr 2 O 7 matrix by plasma spray quenching of 8YSZ powders and spark plasma sintering. An evident fracture toughness improvement has been achieved due to ferroelastic domains switching. The resulting toughness increase has a quadratic relationship with t ’ phase volume fraction below a critical value (30 vol%), beyond which it is far smaller to what expected owing to the residual stress being smaller than the ferroelastic coercive stress.
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