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Calculation of multicomponent refractory-composite phase diagrams. Final report, 1 January-1 June 1986

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:7009305

Candidate materials being studied can be used at temperatures as high as 5000 /sup 0/F. In order to attain this goal, a series of refractory compounds are being considered that can be used as composites. These composites are based on combinations between carbon (C), zirconium (Zr), boron (B), and silicon (Si) or C, hafnium (Hf), B and Si. In order to investigate where melting can be expected in the candidate composite systems, coupled phase diagram/thermochemical descriptions of the Hf-B, Hf-C, Zr-B and Zr-C binary systems were developed and combined with previously derived descriptions of the B-C, Zr-Si-C binary systems in order to calculate the temperatures at which melting occurs in the composition ranges between C-ZrC-ZrB/sub 2/-B/sub 4/C, C-HfC-HfB/sub 2/-B/sub 4/C, HfC-SiC, ZrB/sub 2/-SiC and HfB/sub 2/-SiC.

Research Organization:
Manlabs, Inc., Cambridge, MA (USA)
OSTI ID:
7009305
Report Number(s):
AD-A-192293/9/XAB
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English