Texture in Aluminum Titanate Ceramic Materials

Dry pressing and filtration of a mixture of platelike corundum and rutile powders shows a slight to sharp texture of the corundum particles. The reaction sintering forming aluminum titanate destroys the texture of the green compact. When starting with a rutile texture in the green compact there exists a texture of tielite in the reaction product. Furthermore we developed a process for production of platelike tielite monocrystalline particles which should be very suited for texturing of the ceramic material.