EFFECT OF FUSED MGO -ZRO2 CLINKER ADDITION ON THERMAL SHOCK RESISTANCE OF MGO- ZRO2 UNFIRED BRICKS.pdf

China’s Refractories，Vo1．17，No．4，2008 LI Jiwei，born in 1982 in Henan Province，was majored in Material Science and received his bachelor’s degree in Zhengzhou University in 2004．He studied in High Temperature Materials Institute of Henan Uni— versity of Science＆ Technology from 2005 and got his master’s degree in June．2008．His research interests are mainly in high temperature structural ceramics and basic refractories． Effect of Fused MgO —-ZrO2 Clinker Addition on Thermal Shock Resistance of Mg0SlS t —ZrO，Unfired Bricks LI Jiwei ，ZHOU Ningsheng ，BAI Hongyu 1 High Temperature Materials Institute，Henan University of Science and Technology，Luoyang 47 1 003，China 2 Yanshi Zhongyue Refractories Co．，Ltd．，Yanshi 471924，China Abstract Mgo—ZrO2 unfired bricks with ZrO2 content up to 8％ at the interval of 2％ were prepared．using fused magnesia(MgO：97％)andfused MgO—ZrO2 clinker (ZrO2：14．33％)as starting materials and phenolic resin as binder．The efects of ZrO2 content on thermal shock resistance(TSR)and other properties such as∞ and hot modulus of rupture have been investigated．Re— sidual cold modulus of rupture ratio after heating at 000℃ and quenching by air blowing was adopted to characterize TSR．Addition of the MgO—ZrO2 clinker improves TSR，attributing to the microcrack toughening efect by thermal expansion mismatch between diferent phases．When ZrO2 content goes above ％ ，the impro— ving@ ct tends to be moderate．The．introduction of MgO — ZrO2 clinker can also improve the HMOR at J 500 ℃ ，while the increased ZrO2 content reduces CMOR of the bricks prefired at，600℃．due to the thermal expansion mismatch efect．Compromising the overal properties，the optimal ZrO2 content for such magnesia based unfired brick is suggested to be ％． Key words： Magnesia — zirconia system， Unfired brick，Thermal shock resistance，Magnesia—zirconia clinker 1 Introduction As well known，magnesia is an important basic refractory material with very high refractoriness and good corrosion resistance to ba