Fabrication and superplasticity of Al2O3/3Y-TZP laminated composite

Tape casting and hot-press sintering are used to fabricate an Al2O3/3Y-TZP laminated composite. The as-prepared material is deep drawn at high temperature to research its superplastic formability. It is found that the microstructure of the material sintered at 1550 °C is fine and no significant residual porosity was detected from SEM observations at the interfaces between the two types of layers. The superplastic forming experiment shows that, when the strain rate is constant, temperature has a great influence on the superplasticity of the Al2O3/3Y-TZP laminated composite. A hat-like part with the greatest deform height is obtained at 1500 °C. The processing will be less effective at higher or lower temperature.