Polythermal sections of the Al2O3-ZrO2-Y2O3 phase diagram

Polythermal sections of the Al₂O₃-ZrO₂-Y₂O₃ phase diagram confirm that the system is quasibinary and enable one to give a complete phase diagram for the system. The ternary eutectic Al₂O₃ + ZrO₂ (solid solution) + Y₃Al₅O₁₂ has the lowest melting point in the system, whose temperature is 1715°C. No single-phase regions for the ternary solid solutions have been identified, which indicates that Al₂O₃ is not soluble in solid solutions based on F-ZrO₂ and C-Y₂O₃. This gives theoretical evidence for the scope for making new ceramics in this ternary system, which may have a high level of mechanical characteristics.