Abstract:
A roller for a roller hearth furnace comprising a dispersion strengthened steel is disclosed. The roller does not require any coating or reconditioning.
Abstract:
Composite materials comprising a hard ceramic phase (16) and an infiltration alloy (20) are disclosed. The hard ceramic phase (16) may comprise a carbide such as tungsten carbide and/or cast carbide. The infiltration alloy (20) is Cu-based and comprises Ni and Sn. The infiltration alloy (20) may further include Nb, and may be substantially free of Mn. The composite material may be heat treated in order to improve its mechanical properties. For example, the composition of the Cu-Ni-Sn infiltration alloy (20) may be selected such that its hardness, wear resistance, toughness and/or transverse rupture strength are improved after the composite material is solutioned and aged at elevated temperatures.
Abstract:
A base plate for power module, comprising an aluminum-silicon carbide composite and aluminum layers made of a metal containing aluminum as the main component formed on respective principal planes of the aluminum-silicon carbide composite, wherein the aluminum-silicon carbide composite is produced by forming or fabricating a flat plate-shaped silicon carbide porous body to have a thickness difference of at most 100 µm in the entire porous body and piling such porous bodies as they are each sandwiched between mold-releasing plates so that the fastening torque in the plane direction becomes from 1 to 20 Nm, and infiltrating a metal containing aluminum as the main component into the silicon carbide porous bodies, wherein the aluminum layers each has an average thickness of from 10 to 150 µm, the difference between the maximum thickness and the minimum thickness of the aluminum layer in each principal plane is at most 80 µm, and the difference between average thicknesses of the aluminum layers on the respective principal planes is at most 50 µm, and wherein the shape of the silicon carbide porous body is rectangle or a rectangle from which peripheral portions encompassing holes are removed.
Abstract:
In one embodiment, a composition (10) to be mixed with a molten metal to make a metal matrix composite, the composition characterized by: a ceramic reinforcing filler (12), the ceramic reinforcing filler not being wettable by molten aluminum and/or not being chemically stable in molten aluminum, the ceramic reinforcing filler being coated with a ceramic material, the ceramic material being wettable by and chemically stable in molten aluminum. In a related embodiment, a composition (20) to make a porous preform to be infiltrated by molten metal to make a metal matrix composite, the composition characterized by: a ceramic reinforcing filler (23), the ceramic reinforcing filler not being wettable by molten aluminum, the ceramic reinforcing filler being coated with a ceramic material (22) and optionally with a metal (21) such as nickel, the ceramic material being wettable by molten aluminum. The ceramic material can be coated on the ceramic reinforcing filler by a vacuum deposition technique such as vacuum sputtering.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for producing a composite part, particularly a brake disk, and to a metal/ceramic part. During the method, a porous ceramic preliminary body is produced and is infiltrated by a molten metal. According to the invention, an alloy consisting of copper and of at least one other metal are used as a molten metal during the infiltration, whereby the other metal is reacted with at least one reactive constituent of the preliminary body so that a pore space of a ceramic phase is completely filled with essentially pure copper.
Abstract:
This method enables us to produce reinforced titanium composite parts with a low manufacturing cost and in which it is possible to control the percentage of reinforcement achieved on the basis of obtaining a titanium composite reinforcement material, formed preferably of titanium borides and/or carbides, by means of SHS techniques, and which is melted together with a consumable ingot of titanium or non-reinforced titanium alloy. The parts produced have a proportion of titanium boride and/or carbide which may range from 0% to 70% by weight.
Abstract:
The present invention describes a diamond tool (10) with diamond bonded chemically by a braze (28) that contains either Cr, Mn, Si, or Al or mixtures or alloys thereof. The diamond tool (10) is made by infiltrating the braze (28) into a matrix metal (24) that contains diamond (20) in either form of grits or polycrystalline bodies.