Abstract: A method for plastic working of ceramics comprising the steps of causing a sintered or pre-sintered body of polycrystalline ceramics containing at 20.degree. C. tetragonal-phase zirconia crystals to undergo plastic deformation at a temperature of about 1,000.degree. C. to about 1,600.degree. C. and then heating the ceramics body at a temperature of about 1,300.degree. C. to about 1,650.degree. C.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 11, 1986
Date of Patent:
June 21, 1988
Assignees:
Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Nippon Kagaku Togyo Co., Ltd.