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ArticleHeliyon2025

Optimizing woodcutting with zirconia-toughened alumina: Processing, performance, and industrial insights.

Tamanna Thakur, Stefan Heinen, Bruno Ehrle, Gurdial Blugan

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Article in Heliyon, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Alumina-Based Cutting Tools-A Review of Recent Progress.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Tamanna ThakurSwiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), Laboratory for High Performance Ceramics, 8600, Dübendorf, CH, Switzerland.
Stefan HeinenSwiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), Laboratory for High Performance Ceramics, 8600, Dübendorf, CH, Switzerland.
Bruno EhrleOERTLI Werkzeuge AG, Hoftstrasse 1, 8181, Höri bei Bülach, Switzerland.
Gurdial BluganSwiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), Laboratory for High Performance Ceramics, 8600, Dübendorf, CH, Switzerland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since the 1950s, the woodcutting industry has relied heavily on tungsten carbide (WC) cutting tools to overcome the challenges posed by the complex structure of wood, including hard knots and abrasive elements such as sand and tannic acids. These demands require cutting tools with superior thermal conductivity and mechanical properties. However, the rising cost of WC materials has prompted the search for alternative solutions. As a result, zirconia-toughened alumina (ZTA) ceramic materials with varying amounts of in situ formed SrAl

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AluminaCeramicsSinteringWood cuttingZirconia

Identifiers

PMID39882456
PMCPMC11774802

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