Hot-isostatic pressing of silicon carbide based multiphase composed materials
- Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai (China). Shanghai Inst. of Ceramics
Silicon carbide (SiC) based ceramic composites with improved fracture toughness and increased flexure strength have been developed by incorporating some other non-oxide and oxide particles or some whiskers and fibers. Hot-Isostatic Pressing (HIP) has been identified as an important technology for strengthening carbide by surface modification. In this paper, Hot-pressed SiC-TiC with different densities and HIP-SiC/SiC(w) composites were post HIPped under a N{sub 2}-pressure of 200 MPa at 1,850 C for 1 h. The results showed that the open pores were closed and physical and mechanical properties such as density, flexure strength and toughness were obviously improved. For the SiC-TiC composites, the final density can be reached above 985 theoretical density, flexure strength and fracture toughness were increased by 100% and 30--50%, respectively. For the SiC/5vol%-SiC(w) composites, the final flexure strength and fracture toughness were increased from 595 MPa and 6.7 MPa {center_dot} m{sup 1/2} to 920 MPa and 8.5 MPa {center_dot} m{sup 1/2} separately. A possible reaction-HIP densification mechanism for SiC ceramics with open pores is proposed.
- OSTI ID:
- 100554
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-941144--; ISBN 1-55899-266-9
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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