The influence of heating rate on the microstructural evolutions and mechanical properties of spark plasma sintered multi-walled carbon nanotubes reinforced NiAl intermetallic matrix composites

2020 ◽  
Vol 773 ◽  
pp. 138869
Author(s):  
Olusoji Oluremi Ayodele ◽  
Adewale Oladapo Adegbenjo ◽  
Mary Ajimegoh Awotunde ◽  
Mxolisi Brendon Shongwe ◽  
Peter Apata Olubambi
2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 096369350801700
Author(s):  
Laixue Pang ◽  
Jinsheng Zhang ◽  
Jing Xu

Multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWNT) reinforced iron aluminides (Fe3Al) intermetallic matrix composites have been prepared by a conventional (hot pressing) sintering method. Morphological, structural, compositional and mechanical properties investigations have been performed. Compressive testing shows that the composites still display high yield strength. The first results show that carbon nanotubes have been preserved in composite structure during the sintering process.


2013 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dj. Veljovic ◽  
G. Vukovic ◽  
I. Steins ◽  
E. Palcevskis ◽  
P.S. Uskokovic ◽  
...  

Composites based on HAP and oxidized multi-walled carbon nanotubes (o-MWCNT) and monophase HAP materials were processed by spark plasma sintering. Starting from stoichiometric nano-sized HAP powder, monophase bioceramics were obtained with a density close to the theoretical one and with an average grain size of several hundred nanometers to micron dimensions. It was shown that decreasing the sintering temperature resulted in a decrease of the grain size, which affected an increase in the fracture toughness and hardness. The fracture toughness of an HAP/ o-MWCNT bioceramic processed at 900?C for only 5 min was 30 % higher than that of monophase HAP materials obtained under the same conditions. The addition of MWCNT during SPS processing of HAP materials caused a decrease in the grain size to the nano-dimension, which was one of the reasons for the improved mechanical properties.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 7043
Author(s):  
Tun-Ping Teng ◽  
Shang-Pang Yu ◽  
Yeou-Feng Lue ◽  
Qi-Lin Xie ◽  
Hsiang-Kai Hsieh ◽  
...  

This study selects titanium dioxide (TiO2) and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) as far-infrared materials (FIRMs), and further adds water-based acrylic coatings to prepare far-infrared coatings (FIRCs). FIRCs are uniformly coated on #304 stainless steel sheets to make the test samples, which are then installed between the shell and insulation material of the hot water heater to measure the influences of various FIRCs on the performance of the hot water heater. The research results show no significant difference in the heating rate or heat insulation performance of the hot water heater with or without FIRCs coating. However, the uniformity of the water temperatures of the test samples is significantly improved with FIRCs. Considering that the uniformity of water temperature will inhibit the heating rate and heat insulation performance of the hot water heater, TiO2-FIRC should provide better performance improvement when applied to the hot water heater in this study. The application of TiO2-FIRC to large-scale hot water heaters with a high aspect ratio will effectively improve the quality of hot water supply in the future.


Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 1150
Author(s):  
Nicolás A. Ulloa-Castillo ◽  
Roberto Hernández-Maya ◽  
Jorge Islas-Urbano ◽  
Oscar Martínez-Romero ◽  
Emmanuel Segura-Cárdenas ◽  
...  

This article focuses on exploring how the electrical conductivity and densification properties of metallic samples made from aluminum (Al) powders reinforced with 0.5 wt % concentration of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) and consolidated through spark plasma sintering (SPS) process are affected by the carbon nanotubes dispersion and the Al particles morphology. Experimental characterization tests performed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and by energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) show that the MWCNTs were uniformly ball-milled and dispersed in the Al surface particles, and undesirable phases were not observed in X-ray diffraction measurements. Furthermore, high densification parts and an improvement of about 40% in the electrical conductivity values were confirmed via experimental tests performed on the produced sintered samples. These results elucidate that modifying the powder morphology using the ball-milling technique to bond carbon nanotubes into the Al surface particles aids the ability to obtain highly dense parts with increasing electrical conductivity properties.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyed Ali Mirsalehi ◽  
Amir Ali Youzbashi ◽  
Amjad Sazgar

AbstractIn this study, epoxy hybrid nanocomposites reinforced by carbon fibers (CFs) were fabricated by a filament winding. To improve out-of-plane (transverse) mechanical properties, 0.5 and 1.0 Wt.% multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) were embedded into epoxy/CF composites. The MWCNTs were well dispersed into the epoxy resin without using any additives. The transverse mechanical properties of epoxy/MWCNT/CF hybrid nanocomposites were evaluated by the tensile test in the vertical direction to the CFs (90º tensile) and flexural tests. The fracture surfaces of composites were studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The SEM observations showed that the bridging of the MWCNTs is one of the mechanisms of transverse mechanical properties enhancement in the epoxy/MWCNT/CF composites. The results of the 90º tensile test proved that the tensile strength and elongation at break of nanocomposite with 1.0 Wt.% MWCNTs improved up to 53% and 50% in comparison with epoxy/CF laminate composite, respectively. Furthermore, the flexural strength, secant modulus, and elongation of epoxy/1.0 Wt.% MWCNT/CF hybrid nanocomposite increased 15%, 7%, and 9% compared to epoxy/CF laminate composite, respectively.


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