Published date: Sep 20 2016

Journal Title: KnE Energy

Issue title: International Conference on Nuclear Energy Technologies and Sciences (2015)

Pages: 86-93

DOI: 10.18502/ken.v1i1.464

Tjokorda Gde Tirta Nindhia - nindhia@yahoo.com

The components in nuclear  application should ensure the safety during operation. Testing and investigation should be performed to ensure the quality of every component. This report propose ceramography technique for testing of silicon nitride in nuclear application. Ceramic material is known brittle therefore not possible to hold by using vice as usual used in metal during cutting. Since ceramic is very hard, the cost for cutting, grinding and polishing required high cost due to utilization of diamond. Special techniques should be employed during observation bay using optical microscope because ceramic are not reflect the light. Ceramic is mainly known since their high chemical resistance therefore difficult to etching by using chemical solution. A unique respond of ceramic due to indentation make the indentation technique become part of ceramography. Indentation process requires a flat sample in order valid result to be obtained, and this can be achieved by special technique during grinding and polishing. This research introduce of ceramography process that was successfully done on Si₃N₄, from preparation of the specimen, microstructure observation, the respond on indentation, strength, and porosity investigation   The results showed that the fluorescent dye penetrant under ultra violet source of light the defect in Si₃N₄ was easily observed therefore is suitable to be proposed as a technique for testing the quality of silicon nitride component in nuclear application.[P1] 

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