The Research of SiC and Si3N4 Whiskers Reinforced Si3N4 Composites to Improve its Wear and Mechanical Properties

2011 ◽  
Vol 474-476 ◽  
pp. 1881-1886 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lian Wei Yang ◽  
Jin Hui Li ◽  
Rui Jie Wang

To improve the wear and mechanical properties, SiCand Si3N4whiskers reinforced Si3N4composites were sintered by hot press sintering technique at 1800 and 1900°C for 1 h. The Friction and wear behaviors of Si3N4-SiC whisker reinforced Si3N4composites have been studied by using a reciprocating sliding apparatus. The results show that Si3N4-SiC whisker can greatly improve the hardness, fracture toughness and wear resistance of Si3N4. Lower sintering temperature can make both the grain dimension and interface area of the whiskers with the matrix decrease, resulting in relatively uneasy fracture of the whiskers. This uneasy fracture of the whiskers is the main reason for improvement in fracture toughness, and thus, the decrease in wear rate compared with those of the samples sintered at higher temperature and Si3N4material.

2013 ◽  
Vol 589-590 ◽  
pp. 590-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Wang ◽  
Jun Zhao

In order to investigate the effects of TiN content on Al2O3/TiN ceramic material (ATN), the ATN ceramic materials were prepared of TiN content in 30%, 40%, 50%, 60% in the condition of hot press sintering. The sintering temperature is 1700°C, the sintering press is 32MPa, and the holding time are 5min, 10min, 15min. The effects of TiN content on mechanical properties and microstructure of ATN ceramic materials were investigated by analyzing the bending strength, hardness, fracture toughness. The results show that ATN50 has the best mechanical property, its bending strength is 659.41MPa, vickers hardness is 13.79GPa, fracture toughness is 7.06MPa·m1/2. It is indicated that the TiN content has important effect on microstructure and mechanical properties of ATN ceramic materials.


2008 ◽  
Vol 368-372 ◽  
pp. 1764-1766 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Jin Wang ◽  
Lei Chen ◽  
Tai Quan Zhang ◽  
Yu Zhou

The ZrC-W composites with iron as sintering additive were fabricated by hot-press sintering. The densification, microstructure and mechanical properties of the composites were investigated. The incorporation of Fe beneficially promotes the densification of ZrC-W composites. The relative density of the composite sintered at 1900°C can attain 95.3%. W2C phase is also found in the ZrC-W composite sintered at 1700°C. The content of W2C decreases with the increase of sintering temperature. However, W2C phase is not identified in the composite sintered at 1900°C. The flexural strength and fracture toughness of the composites are strongly dependent on sintering temperature. The flexural strength and fracture toughness of ZrC-W composite sintered at optimized temperature of 1800°C are 438 MPa and 3.99 MPa·m1/2, respectively.


Crystals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 422
Author(s):  
Kuai Zhang ◽  
Yungang Li ◽  
Hongyan Yan ◽  
Chuang Wang ◽  
Hui Li ◽  
...  

An Fe/FeAl2O4 composite was prepared with Fe-Fe2O3-Al2O3 powder by a hot press sintering method. The mass ratio was 6:1:2, sintering pressure was 30 MPa, and holding time was 120 min. The raw materials for the powder particles were respectively 1 µm (Fe), 0.5 µm (Fe2O3), and 1 µm (Al2O3) in diameter. The effect of sintering temperature on the microstructure and mechanical properties of Fe/FeAl2O4 composite was studied. The results showed that Fe/FeAl2O4 composite was formed by in situ reaction at 1300 °C–1500 °C. With the increased sintering temperature, the microstructure and mechanical properties of the Fe/FeAl2O4 composite showed a change law that initially became better and then became worse. The best microstructure and optimal mechanical properties were obtained at 1400 °C. At this temperature, the grain size of Fe and FeAl2O4 phases in Fe/FeAl2O4 composite was uniform, the relative density was 96.7%, and the Vickers hardness and bending strength were 1.88 GPa and 280.0 MPa, respectively. The wettability between Fe and FeAl2O4 was enhanced with increased sintering temperature. And then the densification process was accelerated. Finally, the microstructure and mechanical properties of the Fe/FeAl2O4 composite were improved.


2013 ◽  
Vol 589-590 ◽  
pp. 572-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hua He Liu ◽  
Han Lian Liu ◽  
Chuan Zhen Huang ◽  
Bin Zou ◽  
Ya Cong Chai

Al2O3-MgO, Al2O3-Y2O3 and Al2O3-MgO-Y2O3 composite ceramics were fabricated respectively by hot-press sintering technique. With the analysis of the mechanical properties and microstructure, it was found that single additive MgO could be more favorable to the grains’ refinement and densification than Y2O3; the composite additive including both MgO and Y2O3 was better than single additive MgO or Y2O3, because their interactions could improve the mechanical properties of the Al2O3 ceramics; The sintering temperature could be reduced by adding the suitable amount of composite additives.


2017 ◽  
Vol 726 ◽  
pp. 297-302
Author(s):  
Chang Chun Lv ◽  
Yu Jia Zhai ◽  
Cheng Biao Wang ◽  
Zhi Jian Peng

TiCN-based cermets were prepared by hot-press sintering through adding various amounts of AlN nanopowder (0-20 wt.%) into a 64 wt.% TiC0.5N0.5-10 wt.% WC-8.5 wt.% Mo-12.5 wt.% Ni-5 wt.% Co system. The microstructure and mechanical properties of the prepared cermets were investigated. For the prepared cermets, samples with 5 wt.% AlN nanopowder exhibited optimum mechanical properties of Vickers hardness 2191 HV10, bending strength 601 MPa, and fracture toughness 6.03 MPa.m1/2, respectively.


2009 ◽  
Vol 628-629 ◽  
pp. 459-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fa Zhan Yang ◽  
Xing Ai ◽  
Jun Zhao

A new WC matrix nanocomposite cermet was prepared by hot-press sintering. In the composite, certain amounts of VC is added to the composite as grain growth inhibitors. The consolidation is carried out under pressure 30~35Mpa and sintering temperature 1610°C for soaking 30min sintering. Microstructure of the nanocomposite cermet is scanned by SEM and mechanical properties are measured. It is detected that microstructure and fracture morphology is dissimilar to different particle sizes. Experimental results show that particle size of WC is important to the composite. Results show that relative density and hardness have the similar trend in growth. Meanwhile, the function of Al2O3 addition is also investigated in this paper.


2011 ◽  
Vol 695 ◽  
pp. 227-230
Author(s):  
Liu Yi Xiang ◽  
Fen Wang ◽  
Jian Feng Zhu ◽  
Xiao Feng Wang

Al2O3/TiAl composites were successfully fabricated by hot-press-assisted exothermic dispersion method with powder mixtures of Ti, Al, TiO2and Cr2O3as raw materials. The effect of sintering temperature on the microstructures and mechanical properties of Al2O3/TiAl composites has been investigated. The results show that the Rockwell hardness and density of the composites increased with increasing sintering temperature. But the flexural strength and fracture toughness peaked at 825 MPa and 7.29 MPa·m1/2, respectively, when the sintering temperature reached to1300 °C.


2013 ◽  
Vol 457-458 ◽  
pp. 152-155
Author(s):  
Wen Zheng Dong ◽  
Qi Quan Lin ◽  
Tao Jiang ◽  
Zhi Gang Wang

The sintering behavior and the resulting of cermet are influenced not only by the characteristics and impurities of the raw materials but also are found to be dependent on the thermal history during the fabrication process. Our work is concerned with the effect of sintering temperature on the mechanical properties of 17Ni/(10NiO-NiFe2O4) cermet. The nickel ferrite based cermet were prepared by hot-press sintering technology at 16MPa and sintered at temperatures ranging from 900 to 1200°C. The microstructure, phase compositions and mechanical properties were studied by SEM, XRD and three point bending strength tests respectively. It has been found that, the relative density, hardness and bending strength of NiFe2O4 based cermet have a great influence upon the sintering temperature, and an optimal sintering temperature, e.g. 1100°C is chosen through our experiments. The highest bending strength of 125.89Mpa could be obtained under the sintering temperature of 1100°C. Meanwhile, the thermal shock resistance increases as the sintering temperature increases.


Author(s):  
Luosheng Ma ◽  
Lili Ma ◽  
Peipeng Jin ◽  
Xinya Feng ◽  
Lei Jia

Abstract In this study, ZK60 Mg alloys were prepared via hot-press sintering under a constant pressure of 30 MPa as well as Ar atmosphere. The sintering temperature was determined to be in the range of 450–600 °C with an interval of 50 °C. The effect of sintering temperature on the microstructures and mechanical properties of the alloys was investigated. All the four sintered alloys mainly exhibited an α-Mg-phase structure and equiaxed grain microstructure. However, a specific amount of melt, enriched in Zn element, formed when the sintering temperature reached 500 °C. Thus, only the alloy sintered at 450 °C maintained the nominal composition of the alloy powder, and exhibited the favorable yield strength and hardness, which was 135.1 MPa and 57 HV, respectively. The alloys sintered at 550 °C and 600 °C exhibited a reduced yield strength and hardness due to the loss of Zn element.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bingsai Liu ◽  
Yuanping Gu ◽  
Yuchun Ji ◽  
Guoyuan Zheng ◽  
Feiwen Ma ◽  
...  

Abstract A series of BNNTs/B4C composite ceramic were prepared by the spark plasma sintering (SPS) technology using boron carbide (B4C) powders as the matrix and boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) as the toughening phase. The XRD, SEM, TEM and HR-TEM were used to characterize the B4C samples. The influence of sintering temperature, BNNTs content and matrix particle size on the microstructures and mechanical properties of B4C composite ceramics, as well the toughening mechanism were investigated in detail. The experimental results showed that changing the particle size of the powder, increasing the sintering temperature and adding BNNTs could significantly improve the mechanical properties of the material. The ceramic samples obtained by adding 5wt.% BNNTs content sintered at 1750℃ displayed the best mechanical properties. Its relative density, microhardness and fracture toughness respectively were 99.41%, 32.68 GPa and 6.87 Mpa·m1/2, respectively. In particular, the fracture toughness value of the BNNTs/B4C composite ceramic was 54.59% higher than that of B4C ceramics without BNNTs.


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