Abstract
This study is concerned with the fabrication of engineering ceramics with complicated shapes by using the Slip Casting Process. In the previous report, we showed the conditions for preparing well-dispersed and high solid content Y-PSZ slurries. In this report, we will show the results of slip casting and sintering of Y-PSZ. High density green bodies, form 46 to 50% of the theoretical density, were obtained by the slip casting using well-dispersed and high solid content slurries of 3 kinds of starting powders. From high density green bodies, high density sintered bodies, above 99%, were obtained at the sintering conditions at 1500°C, 2h, in air for 3 kinds of starting powders. The bending strength for sintered bodies showed from 1 to 1.2GPa when the green bodies were sintered at from 1350 to 1500°C in air.