• closedAccess   An estimate of quartz content and particle size in porcelain tiles from young's modulus measurements 

      Dal Bó, Marcelo; Cantavella Soler, Vicente; Sánchez-Vilches, Enrique; Gilabert Villegas, Francisco A.; Boschi, Anselmo O.; Hotza, Dachamir Elsevier (2017)
      The influence of quartz particle size, weight content and firing temperature on the Young's modulus of porcelain tiles was studied. To simulate a porcelain tile microstructure, an albite glass matrix with added crystalline ...
    • closedAccess   Fracture patterns of quartz particles in glass feldspar matrix 

      Gilabert Villegas, Francisco A.; Dal Bó, Marcelo; Cantavella Soler, Vicente; Sánchez-Vilches, Enrique Elsevier (2012)
      We report a comparison between experimental evidences and simulation results of the micro cracking in ceramic materials provoked by the cooling process. The solid model and the fracture process are carried out using the ...
    • openAccess   Fracture toughness and temperature dependence of Young's modulus of a sintered albite glass 

      Dal Bó, Marcelo; Cantavella Soler, Vicente; Sánchez-Vilches, Enrique; Hotza, Dachamir; Gilabert Villegas, Francisco A. Elsevier (2013-03)
      Albite glass is an important component in many ceramic compositions, often used as liquid phase during the sintering process. Nevertheless, in spite of its almost ubiquous presence in the final microstructure of these ...
    • closedAccess   Modeling microstructural damage of silicate-based ceramics and its influence on macroscopic fracture strength 

      Gilabert Villegas, Francisco A.; Cantavella Soler, Vicente; Dal Bó, Marcelo; Sánchez-Vilches, Enrique Elsevier (2014-05-15)
      The aim of this work is to clarify the influence of quartz inclusions added to a vitreous matrix on the macroscopic fracture toughness (KICKIC). We use numerical simulations to model a silicate-based ceramic material as a ...
    • openAccess   Relationship between Young's modulus and temperature in porcelain tiles 

      De Oliveira, Antonio Pedro Novaes; Sánchez-Vilches, Enrique; Cantavella Soler, Vicente; Gilabert Villegas, Francisco A. Elsevier (2012)
      A focused research was conducted on samples prepared from an industrial porcelain tile composition containing quartz, used to produce ceramic floor tiles, with the aim of evaluating the variation of fired specimens’ Young's ...