摘要:
The invention relates to subjecting boron carbide to a heat treatment at a temperature within a range of 1250.degree. C. to less than 1800.degree. C. prior to infiltration with a molten metal such as aluminum. This method allows control of kinetics of metal infiltration and chemical reactions, size of reaction products and connectivity of B.sub.4 C grains and results in cermets having desired mechanical properties.
摘要:
A dense, self-reinforced silicon nitride ceramic body and a method of making such body. The body has a composition that includes: (a) silicon nitride; (b) a glassy grain boundary phase containing oxygen, nitrogen, magnesium, yttrium, silicon, zirconium, and at least one of titanium and aluminum; and (c) a second crystalline phase containing zirconium oxide; and (d) crystalline phases of metal zirconium silicide and/or metal zirconium silicon nitride. The ceramic exhibits high fracture toughness and high fracture strength and has a density at least 98 percent of theoretical.
摘要:
Substantially dense, void-free ceramic-metal composites are prepared from components characterized by chemical incompatibility and non-wetting behavior. The composites have a final chemistry similar to the starting chemistry and microstructures characterized by ceamic grains similar in size to the starting powder and the presence of metal phase. A method for producing the composites requires forming a homogeneous mixture of ceramic-metal, heating the mixture to a temperature that approximates but is below the temperature at which the metal begins to flow and pressing the mixture at such pressure that compaction and densification of the mixture occurs and an induced temperature spike occurs that exceeds the flowing temperature of the metal such that the mixture is further compacted and densified. The temperature spike and duration thereof remains below that at which significant reaction between metal and ceramic occurs. The method requires pressures of 60-250 kpsi employed at a rate of 5-250 kpsi/second.
摘要:
Prepare a self-reinforced silicon nitride ceramic body of high fracture toughness by hot-pressing a powder mixture containing silicon nitride and three other components under conditions such that densification and the in situ formation of .beta.-silicon nitride whiskers having a high aspect ratio occur. The other components are silicon dioxide as a densification aid, a conversion aid such as yttrium oxide and a compound, such as calcium oxide, which enhances growth of .beta.-silicon nitride whiskers. The resultant silicon nitride ceramic has a .beta.-silicon nitride cyrstalline phase, at least 20 volume percent of which is in the form of whiskers or elongated grains having an average aspect ratio of at least about 2.5, and a glassy second phase. The glassy phase contains the silicon dioxide, the conversion aid and the compound which enhances growth of .beta.-silicon nitride whiskers. The glassy phase may also include a minor amount of aluminum nitride or boron nitride.
摘要:
A porous discriminating layer is formed on a ceramic support having at least one porous wall by (a) establishing a flow of a gas stream containing highly porous particles through the support to deposit a layer of the highly porous particles of a ceramic or ceramic precursor onto wall(s) of the support and (b) calcining said deposited layer to form the discriminating layer. This method is an inexpensive and effective route to forming a discriminating layer onto the porous wall.
摘要:
Densified composites of a metal such as copper or aluminum with a titanium-silicon-carbide or titanium-aluminum-carbide ceramic material are prepared by forming the ceramic material into a body, and infiltrating the body with the molten metal. The metal is able to rapidly penetrate into void spaces, between grain boundaries and even into the crystal structure of the ceramic grains to form a composite. The starting ceramic material may be previously densified, in which case various types of gradient structures can be produced easily. The process can be operated at low pressures, and so the hot pressing methods that normally must be used to densify these ceramic materials can be avoided.
摘要:
A porous discriminating layer is formed on a ceramic support having at least one porous wall by (a) establishing a flow of a gas stream containing highly porous particles through the support to deposit a layer of the highly porous particles of a ceramic or ceramic precursor onto wall(s) of the support and (b) calcining said deposited layer to form the discriminating layer. This method is an inexpensive and effective route to forming a discriminating layer onto the porous wall.
摘要:
The present invention generally relates to a geopolymer precursor dry mixture, geopolymer precursor package, a process of preparing a geopolymer composition, and a method of providing a geopolymer composition to a geopolymer composition preparation site.
摘要:
The present invention relates to modified geopolymer compositions, geopolymer-coated organic polymer substrates, and methods of manufacturing and articles comprising same.
摘要:
A monofilament plastic fiber useful in reducing plastic shrinkage cracking of concrete articles has been discovered. The fiber has a core that is a polyolefin that is at least partially enveloped by a sheath that is a copolymer of an olefin and at least one olefinically unsaturated comonomer selected from the group consisting of an unsaturated carboxylic acid, alkyl acrylate, alkyl methacrylate and vinyl ester.