Porous Talcum-Based Steatite Ceramics Fabricated by the Admixture of Organic Particles: Experimental Characterization and Effective Medium/Field Modeling of Thermo-Mechanical Properties

In this paper, an experimental campaign, as regards the thermo-mechanical properties (heat capacity, thermal conductivity, Young’s modulus, and tensile (bending) strength) of talcum-based steatite ceramics with artificially introduced porosity, is presented. The latter has been created by adding various amounts of an organic pore-forming agent, almond shell granulate, prior to compaction and sintering of the green bodies. The so-obtained porosity-dependent material parameters have been represented by homogenization schemes from effective medium/effective field theory. As regards the latter, thermal conductivity and elastic properties are well described by the self-consistent estimate, with effective material properties scaling in a linear manner with porosity, with the latter in the range of 1.5 vol-%, representing the intrinsic porosity of the ceramic material, to 30 vol-% in this study. On the other hand, strength properties are, due to the localization of the failure mechanism in the quasi-brittle material, characterized by a higher-order power-law dependency on porosity.

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