In Situ Synthesis of TiB2-TiC0.8-40vol%SiC by Hot Pressing

2013 ◽  
Vol 813 ◽  
pp. 179-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pei Qiu Sun ◽  
De Gui Zhu ◽  
Xiao Song Jiang ◽  
Hong Liang Sun ◽  
Song Chen

TiB2-TiC0.8-40vol%SiC multiphase ceramics were prepared by in-situ hotpressing sintering. The phase composition and microstructures of the materials were characterized by optical mic- oscope, X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy. The effects of sintering temperature on the phases, microstructures and mechanical properties of the ceramics were investigated. The results show that density, bending strength and fracture toughness of the ceramics are increased with the elevation of sintering temperature (1800-1950°C). High densified TiB2-TiC0.8-40vol%SiC multipha- se ceramics and optimized microstructure is obtained by sintering at 1900°C, in which the uniform distribution of lath-shape TiB2 and bulk TiC0.8 grains can be observed obviously. Nano-SiC particles distributed dispersively in the TiB2 and TiC0.8 grains and at boundaries. The Vickers hardness, fract- ure toughness, flexural strength and electrical conductivity of the TiB2-TiC0.8-40vol%SiC multipha- se ceramics sintered at 1900°C are 24.055GPa, 8.27±1.0MPa∙m1/2, 516.69MPa and 2.2×106S∙m-1, respectively. However, up to 1950°C, TiB2 and TiC0.8 grains gradually grew up, the bending stren- gth of multiphase ceramics was decreased greatly. In addition, TiB2, TiC0.8 and SiC particles were incorporated together to improve the particulate strength and toughness of composite material by the synergistic mechanism effects among the crystal phases in the multiphase ceramics, such as crack deflection, grain’s pull-out and fine-grain toughening.

2009 ◽  
Vol 79-82 ◽  
pp. 477-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Hua Dong ◽  
Wei Ke Zhang ◽  
Jian Li ◽  
Yan Sheng Yin

Near full dense B4C ceramic matrix composites were fabricated from Ti-Al-B4C system by combining high energy milling with hot pressing sintering. The effect of different content of Ti-Al on the mechanical properties and microstructure of the as-prepared composites was investigated. A TiAl/B4C composite, whose typical bending strength and fracture toughness are 437.3 MPa and 4.85 MPa•m1/2, respectively, was made. The sintering mechanism and reinforcement mechanism were discussed with the assistant of X-Ray diffraction and electron microscopy.


2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (9) ◽  
pp. 2366-2372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongjun Li ◽  
Sicheng Li ◽  
Ran Lv ◽  
Jiaqian Qin ◽  
Jian Zhang ◽  
...  

Cubic boron nitride (cBN) composites starting with cBN–Al mixtures were sintered on WC-16 wt% Co substrates under static high pressure of 5.0 GPa and at temperatures of 800–1400 °C for 30 min. Vickers hardness of the sintered samples increased with increasing cBN content, and the highest hardness of 32.7 GPa was achieved for the cBN–5 wt% Al specimens sintered at 1400 °C. The reactions between cBN and Al started to occur at about 900 °C, and the reaction products strongly depended on the Al content, sintering temperature, and Co diffusion from the substrates according to the x-ray diffraction (XRD) observations. The high pressure and high temperature in situ resistance measurement indicated that the reactions between cBN and Al could be completed in about 90 s when the temperature was higher than ∼1200 °C at high pressure. The cBN composite sintered at 1200 °C from a cBN–15 wt% Al mixture showed the best cutting performance.


2015 ◽  
Vol 816 ◽  
pp. 210-215
Author(s):  
Wei Ping Chen ◽  
Yong Zeng ◽  
Xiao Mei Li ◽  
Hua Qiang Xiao

Ti3AlC2/TiAl3 composite was successfully fabricated by ball milling and in-situ reaction/hot-pressing of Ti, Al and graphite powders mixture at 1200 °C and 30 MPa for 30 min. The phase composition and microstructure of the milled powders and synthesized composite were investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM), the mechanical properties and the toughening mechanism of 20%vol Ti3AlC2/TiAl3 composite was also studied. The results show that no new phase is detected during 50 h of milling process. The in-situ synthesized samples are fully dense and composed of 72%vol TiAl3, 24%vol Ti3AlC2 and 4%vol Al2O3/TiC. The Vickers Hardness, three-point bending strength and fracture toughness of the composite is ~5.2 GPa, ~243 MPa and ~4.3 MPa/m1/2, respectively. Analysis of microstructure reveals that crack deflection, crack bridging and delamination of Ti3AlC2 are the main mechanism responsible for the toughening.


2015 ◽  
Vol 815 ◽  
pp. 297-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xing Ping Fan ◽  
Ben Ju Wang ◽  
Xiao Qing Ren ◽  
Fu Chang Peng

The medical Ti-20Mo alloys were fabricated by powder metallurgy. The effects of sintering temperature on the phase, the morphology and the mechanical properties of Ti-Mo alloys were investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and mechanical properties test methods. The results showed that after sintering at 1200 °C, the microstructure of Ti-Mo alloys mainly consisted of α phase. The increasing sintering time could promote α→β phase transition, thus the flexural strength and the elastic modulus of Ti-Mo alloys could be controlled. When the sintering temperature was 1300 °C, molybdenum content was 20%, the bending strength and the compressive strength of Ti-20Mo alloy were 1369MPa and 2602MPa respectively, and the elastic modulus was 3.4GPa. It may be concluded that the Ti-20Mo alloys is prospective prostheses materials.


2013 ◽  
Vol 750-752 ◽  
pp. 521-524
Author(s):  
Ping Li ◽  
Xing Yong Gu ◽  
Ting Luo ◽  
Yun Xia Chen

Al (OH)3, Suzhou kaolin, AlF3 and V2O5 were premixed and pelleted to form the precursor for fabricating the mullite whisker, and then the precursor was added into the calcined bauxite and Suzhou kaolin mixture according to a certain mass percent. The mullite-corundum refractory materials with well-dispersed needle-like mullite formed in-situ were prepared. Through studying the effect of different sintering temperatures on the performances of the as-fabricated mullite-corundum refractory materials, it was concluded that the appropriate sintering temperature was 1450 °C. X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), water absorption, bending strength, coefficient of thermal expansion and the first thermal stress fracture factor were used to characterize and evaluate the materials. The results show that the sintering character and thermal expansion coefficient of the refractory materials increase with the rising sintering temperature. The bending strength of the refractory materials sintered at 1500 °C presented the maximum value and the first thermal stress fracture factor appeared the highest value at 1450 °C.


2011 ◽  
Vol 194-196 ◽  
pp. 1732-1735 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fen Wang ◽  
Xiao Feng Wang ◽  
Jian Feng Zhu ◽  
Liu Yi Xiang

In this work, the composites were fabricated by in-situ synthesis reaction and hot-pressing using Ti, Al, TiO2and Eu2O3as starting materials. Effects of the sintering temperature on the microstructures and properties of the Al2O3/TiAl composites were investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and universal properties tests. The result shows that the sintering temperature had effect on improving the mechanical properties of TiAl composites. The phase of the composites composed of γ-TiAl/α2-Ti3Al matrix and reinforcing phases of Al2O3and EuAlO3. The grain size of composite was smaller than 0.5 µm at 1200 °C. And the mechanical properties reached to the maximum value (477.96 MPa and 9.73 MPa•m1/2). The properties decreased with grain growth at 1300 °C.


2013 ◽  
Vol 634-638 ◽  
pp. 2354-2357
Author(s):  
Nai Peng ◽  
Cheng Ji Deng ◽  
Wen Jie Yuan ◽  
Hong Xi Zhu

The microstructure and phase analysis of in situ nitrides formation in MgAl2O4-C refractory were investigated with different temperature. The phase compositions and microstructure of the MgAl2O4-C refractory were investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscope (SEM). The results show that sintering temperature has a significant influence on the microstructure and phase analysis of MgAl2O4 refractory. As the sintering temperatures are 1450°C and 1500°C, nitride that formed in samples is β-Sialon and the crystal morphology is columnar with short size. With the temperature rise to 1550°C and 1600°C, nitride formed in sample is AlON with the crystal morphology is tabular polymorph with large size.


2011 ◽  
Vol 239-242 ◽  
pp. 1072-1075
Author(s):  
Yu Xin Li ◽  
Pei Kang Bai

Ni/TiC composites have been produced using laser induced self-propagating high-temperature synthesis. The chemical composition and microstructure were investigated by means of X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscope. The sintered density and mechanical properties such as bending strength and micro-hardness were also measured. The results showed that the synthesized products were consisted of TiC and Ni phases, which indicated that the TiC was synthesized by the in-situ reaction. Moreover, the results revealed that the sintered density increased and the micro-hardness and bending strength of the synthesized products gradually decreased with the increasing of Ni contents.


Author(s):  
R. E. Herfert

Studies of the nature of a surface, either metallic or nonmetallic, in the past, have been limited to the instrumentation available for these measurements. In the past, optical microscopy, replica transmission electron microscopy, electron or X-ray diffraction and optical or X-ray spectroscopy have provided the means of surface characterization. Actually, some of these techniques are not purely surface; the depth of penetration may be a few thousands of an inch. Within the last five years, instrumentation has been made available which now makes it practical for use to study the outer few 100A of layers and characterize it completely from a chemical, physical, and crystallographic standpoint. The scanning electron microscope (SEM) provides a means of viewing the surface of a material in situ to magnifications as high as 250,000X.


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