Fabrication and fracture behavior of metallic fiber reinforced NiAl matrix composites
- National Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu (Taiwan, Province of China). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
NiAl intermetallic is recently of considerable interest as the high temperature structure material because of its high melting point, high specific stiffness, better oxidation and creep resistance. However, the low-temperature brittleness of the NiAl intermetallic remained a main reason for its unpopularity for industrial applications. Composite ductile phase toughening approaches have been utilized by many researchers to improve the fracture toughness of intermetallics. In liquid metallurgy, pressure casting or infiltration of molten nickel aluminide into a preform is the usual method for the fabrication of nickel aluminide intermetallic composites. But generally, it is not useful for metallic reinforcements because of the drastic reactions between the molten nickel aluminide and the metallic preform, and the difficulty in sustaining the performance of the metallic preform at a high temperature. In solid metallurgy, this process is based on reactive powder metallurgy and hot pressing, hot extrusion and hot isostatic pressing (HIP). High processing temperature and pressure, generally at a temperature of at least 1,200 C, are necessary conditions for hot pressing, hot extrusion and HIP. Hence the processes require sophisticated manufacturing equipment and considerable energy and render the application of nickel aluminide intermetallic composites unpopular. Work on reactive hot pressing(RHP) at a low temperature near the melting point of aluminum is reconsidered again. Efforts indicated that by combining the spontaneous reaction of the electrically coated nickel film and the aluminum foils, and hot pressing at a temperature about 500 C lower than previously accomplished by HIP, would overcome the fabrication problem of NiAl intermetallic composites reinforced with the uniformly distributed metallic fibers.
- OSTI ID:
- 516832
- Journal Information:
- Scripta Materialia, Vol. 37, Issue 1; Other Information: PBD: 1 Jul 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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