摘要:
A TiAℓ intermetallic compound source and a boride which is less stable than TiB₂ are mixed and melted, followed by solidification to form a TiB₂-dispersed TiAℓ-based composite material in which the TiB₂ is contained in an amount of 0.3 to 10% by volume. In this process, the dispersed TiB₂ particles become very fine, so that the hardness as well as the elongation and bending strength of the TiAℓ material are improved by the finely dispersed TiB₂ particles.
摘要:
A metal matrix composite material having uniformly dispersed intermetallic compounds and no micropores is manufactured by forming a porous preform (18) including 60% to 80% by volume fine fragments essentially made of aluminum, 1% to 10% by volume fine fragments essentially made of nickel, copper or both, and 1% to 10% by volume fine fragments essentially made of titanium so that these fine fragments occupy in total 62% to 95% by volume of said preform (18), and at least a part of the preform is contacted with a melt (22) of a matrix metal selected from aluminum, aluminum alloy, magnesium and magnesium alloy, so that the porous preform is infiltrated with the melt under no substantial application of pressure to the melt.
摘要:
Very fine TiC whiskers having a mean diameter smaller than 1 micron are generated by pellets including Ti powder and graphite powder being added to a molten mass of pure Al or an Al alloy, or by a graphite powder being added to a molten mass of an Al alloy containing Ti, with argon gas being blown into the molten mass so as thereby to generate TiC whiskers in void spaces formed in the molten mass by bubbles of the gas. When the molten mass with the TiC whiskers thus formed therein is compressed, the interstices of the TiC whiskers generated in the void spaces are filled with the molten metal so as thereby to form colonial composite material portions dispersed in the molten mass, thus providing a metallic composite material reinforced by very fine TiC whiskers. The density of the colonial composite material portions can be increased by applying a filtering process to the molten mass.
摘要:
In producing a metal base composite material by first producing a porous preform from a reinforcing material such as short fibers, whisker, particles or mixtures thereof, and secondly infiltrating a molten matrix .metal into the interstices of the porous preform, fine pieces of a third material having good affinity to the molten matrix metal are mixed in the porous preform in the process of producing the preform, and at least a part of the preform is contacted with a molten mass of the matrix metal so that the molten matrix metal infiltrates into the interstices of the porous preform with no substantial pressure being applied thereto.
摘要:
A slide member is made of an aluminum alloy and compositely reinforced at its sliding surface by a reinforcing material. The reinforcing material is a mixture of alumina short fibers consisting of not less than 80 wt.% alumina and the remainder silica and having 5-60 wt.% alpha alumina content, and non-spherical mullite particles consisting of 40-86 wt.% alumina and the remainder silica and having 3-60 microns mean diameter. The volumetric percentages of the alumina short fibers and the mullite particles are 2-12% and 5-25%, respectively, on the basis of the volume of the reinforced portion.
摘要:
In order to produce easily and at low cost a metallic composite material incorporating metal carbide particles dispersed therein such that fine TiC particles and/or ZrC particles are uniformly dispersed in a matrix of Al or Al alloy, first, a pellet (16) is formed from Ti powder and/or Zr powder (10), graphite powder (12) and Al or Al alloy powder (14), then the pellet is infiltrated with molten Al or Al alloy, and thereafter the pellet is heated up to 1000-1800 °C in an inactive atmosphere, so that TiC particles and/or ZrC particles are generated in the pellet. Then the pellet is dissolved in a molten bath of Al or Al alloy.
摘要:
Aluminium borate whiskers by which a composite material having a higher strength than ever is available by definitely suppressing a generation of spinel along the surface of the whiskers are prepared by heating aluminium borate whiskers bearing a r-alumina surface layer in an atmosphere of ammonia gas or ammonia gas and a hydrocarbon gas such that a layer of a nitro-oxide and oxide of aluminium is generated along the surface of the whiskers.