摘要:
A dense cermet article including about 80-95% by volume of a granular hard phase and about 5-20% by volume of a metal phase. The hard phase is a carbide, nitride, carbonitride, oxycarbide, oxynitride, or carboxynitride of a cubic solid solution selected from W-Ti, W-Hf, W-Nb, W-Ta, Zr-Ti, Hf-Ti, Hf-Zr, V-Ti, Nb-Ti, Ta-Ti, or Mo-Ti. The metal phase consists essentially of a combination of nickel and aluminum having a ratio of nickel to aluminum of from about 90:10 to about 70:30 by weight, and 0-5% by weight of an additive selected from titanium, zirconium, hafnium, vanadium, niobium, tantalum, chromium, molybdenum, tungsten, cobalt, boron, and/or carbon. The article may be produced by presintering the hard phase - metal phase component mixture in a vacuum or inert atmosphere at about 1475°-1675°C, then densifying by hot isostatic pressing at a temperature of about 1575°-1675°C, in an inert atmosphere, and at about 34-207 MPa pressure. Limiting the presintering temperature to 1475°-1575°C and keeping the presintering temperature at least 50°C below the hot pressing temperature produces an article of gradated hardness, harder at the surface than at the core. In this gradated product, the hard phase may alternatively be a carbide, nitride, carbonitride, oxycarbide, oxynitride, carboxynitride, or boride of an element selected from Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, W, or B.
摘要:
A dense cermet article including about 80-95% by volume of a granular hard phase and about 5-20% by volume of a metal phase. The hard phase is a carbide, nitride, carbonitride, oxycarbide, oxynitride, or carboxynitride of a cubic solid solution selected from W-Ti, W-Hf, W-Nb, W-Ta, Zr-Ti, Hf-Ti, Hf-Zr, V-Ti, Nb-Ti, Ta-Ti, or Mo-Ti. The metal phase consists essentially of a combination of nickel and aluminum having a ratio of nickel to aluminum of from about 90:10 to about 70:30 by weight, and 0-5% by weight of an additive selected from titanium, zirconium, hafnium, vanadium, niobium, tantalum, chromium, molybdenum, tungsten, cobalt, boron, and/or carbon. The article may be produced by presintering the hard phase - metal phase component mixture in a vacuum or inert atmosphere at about 1475 ° -1675 0 C, then densifying by hot isostatic pressing at a temperature of about 1575 ° -1675 0 C, in an inert atmosphere, and at about 34-207 MPa pressure. Limiting the presintering temperature to 1475°-1575°C and keeping the presintering temperature at least 50 °C below the hot pressing temperature produces an article of gradated hardness, harder at the surface than at the core. In this gradated product, the hard phase may alternatively be a carbide, nitride, carbonitride, oxycarbide, oxynitride, carboxynitride, or boride of an element selected from Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, W, or B.