Methods for making thin metal matrix composite bodies and articles
produced thereby
    3.
    发明授权
    Methods for making thin metal matrix composite bodies and articles produced thereby 失效
    制造薄金属基复合体及其制品的方法

    公开(公告)号:US5585190A

    公开(公告)日:1996-12-17

    申请号:US186194

    申请日:1994-01-24

    摘要: The present invention relates to a novel process for forming thin metal matrix composite bodies. Particularly, an infiltration enhancer and/or an infiltrating atmosphere are in communication with a filler material or preform, at least at some point during the process, which permits molten matrix metal to spontaneously infiltrate the filler material or preform. Such spontaneous infiltration occurs without the application of any pressure or vacuum. In an embodiment of the present invention, the filler material may be sprayed upon a thin sheet of matrix metal. Alternatively, the filler material may be shaped via tape casting, slip casting, etc. to provide a thin preform. In another embodiment of the present invention, a body of matrix metal may be coated with a filler material such that upon spontaneous infiltration a metal matrix composite body is produced which inversely replicates the configuration of the original body of matrix metal. In yet another embodiment of the present invention, a plurality of thin tape cast preforms which are segregated by a barrier material (e.g., graphite foil) may be infiltrated with a matrix metal during a single spontaneous infiltration process.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及一种形成薄金属基复合体的新方法。 特别地,渗透增强剂和/或渗透气氛至少在该过程中的某一点处与填料或预型体连通,这允许熔融基质金属自发地渗入填料或预型体。 这种自发渗透发生在没有施加任何压力或真空的情况下。 在本发明的一个实施例中,填充材料可以喷涂在基体金属薄片上。 或者,填充材料可以通过带铸造,滑移浇铸等形成,以提供薄的预成型件。 在本发明的另一个实施例中,基体金属体可以用填充材料涂覆,使得当自发渗透时,产生金属基体复合体,其反向地复制基体金属原体的构型。 在本发明的另一个实施方案中,在单次自发渗透过程中,通过阻挡材料(例如,石墨箔)隔离的多个薄带铸造预制件可以用基质金属渗透。

    Thin metal matrix composites and production methods
    4.
    发明授权
    Thin metal matrix composites and production methods 失效
    薄金属基复合材料及其制备方法

    公开(公告)号:US5529108A

    公开(公告)日:1996-06-25

    申请号:US971849

    申请日:1993-01-08

    摘要: The present invention relates to a novel process for forming thin metal matrix composite bodies. Particularly, an infiltration enhancer and/or an infiltrating atmosphere are in communication with a filler material or preform, at least, at some point during the process, which permits molten matrix metal to spontaneously infiltrate the filler material or preform. Such spontaneous infiltration occurs without the application of any pressure or vacuum. In an embodiment of the present invention, the filler material may be sprayed upon a thin sheet of matrix metal. Alternatively, the filler material may be shaped via tape casting, slip casting, etc. to provide a thin preform. In another embodiment of the present invention, a body of matrix metal may be coated with a filler material such that upon spontaneous infiltration a metal matrix composite body is produced which inversely replicates the configuration of the original body of matrix metal.

    摘要翻译: PCT No.PCT / US91 / 03114 Sec。 371日期:1993年1月8日 102(e)日期1993年1月8日PCT 1991年5月9日PCT PCT。 出版物WO91 / 17280 日本1991年11月14日。本发明涉及一种形成薄金属基复合体的新方法。 特别地,渗透增强剂和/或渗透气氛至少在该过程中的某一点处与填料或预型体连通,这允许熔融基质金属自发地渗入填料或预型体。 这种自发渗透发生在没有施加任何压力或真空的情况下。 在本发明的一个实施例中,填充材料可以喷涂在基体金属薄片上。 或者,填充材料可以通过带铸造,滑移浇铸等形成,以提供薄的预成型件。 在本发明的另一个实施例中,基体金属体可以用填充材料涂覆,使得当自发渗透时,产生金属基体复合体,其反向地复制基体金属原体的构型。

    Gating means for metal matrix composite manufacture
    6.
    发明授权
    Gating means for metal matrix composite manufacture 失效
    金属基复合材料制造的门控方法

    公开(公告)号:US5553657A

    公开(公告)日:1996-09-10

    申请号:US261694

    申请日:1994-05-31

    摘要: The present invention relates to the use of a gating means in combination with a spontaneous infiltration process to produce a metal matrix composite body. Particularly, a permeable mass of filler material or a preform is spontaneously infiltrated by molten matrix metal to form a metal matrix composite body. A gating means is provided which controls or limits the areal contact between molten matrix metal and the filler material or preform. The use of a gating means provides for control of the amount of matrix metal which can contact the preform or filler material, which may result in less machining of a formed metal matrix composite body compared with a similar metal matrix composite body made without a gating mean. Moreover, the use of a gating means ameliorates the tendency of a formed metal matrix composite body to warp due to the contact between the formed composite body and matrix metal carcass. In a preferred embodiment, the gating means may comprise a porous material or a precursor to a porous material, which may optionally function as a separation facilitator. Alternatively, the separation facilitator may be provided independent of the gating means.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及门控装置与自发渗透方法的组合以产生金属基质复合体的用途。 特别地,填充材料或预成型件的渗透性质量被熔融基质金属自发渗入以形成金属基质复合体。 提供了控制或限制熔融基体金属与填充材料或预制件之间的面接触的门控装置。 门控装置的使用提供了可以接触预成型件或填充材料的基体金属的量的控制,这可能导致形成的金属基质复合体的机械加工较少,而与不具有门控平均值的类似金属基体复合体相比较 。 此外,浇注装置的使用改善了形成的金属基复合材料体由于形成的复合体与基质金属体之间的接触而翘曲的趋势。 在优选实施例中,门控装置可以包括多孔材料或多孔材料的前体,其可以任选地用作分离促进剂。 或者,可以独立于门控装置提供分离促进器。

    Boron carbide composite bodies, and methods for making same
    9.
    发明授权
    Boron carbide composite bodies, and methods for making same 有权
    碳化硼复合体及其制造方法

    公开(公告)号:US06862970B2

    公开(公告)日:2005-03-08

    申请号:US09990175

    申请日:2001-11-20

    摘要: A composite body produced by a reactive infiltration process that possesses high mechanical strength, high hardness and high stiffness has applications in such diverse industries as precision equipment and ballistic armor. Specifically, the composite material features a boron carbide filler or reinforcement phase, and a silicon carbide matrix produced by the reactive infiltration of an infiltrant having a silicon component with a porous mass having a carbonaceous component. Potential deleterious reaction of the boron carbide with silicon during infiltration is suppressed by alloying or dissolving boron into the silicon prior to contact of the silicon infiltrant with the boron carbide. In a preferred embodiment of the invention related specifically to armor, good ballistic performance can be advanced by loading the porous mass or preform to be infiltrated to a high degree with one or more hard fillers such as boron carbide, and by limiting the size of the largest particles making up the mass. The instant reaction-bonded silicon carbide (RBSC) composite bodies surpass previous RBSC's as armor materials, and in this capacity approach the ballistic performance of current carbide armor ceramics but with potentially lower cost manufacturing methods, e.g., infiltration techniques.

    摘要翻译: 通过具有高机械强度,高硬度和高刚度的反应性渗透方法生产的复合体可用于精密设备和防弹装甲等多种行业。 具体地,复合材料具有碳化硼填料或增强相,并且通过具有硅组分的浸润剂的反应性浸渗与具有碳质组分的多孔质量产生的碳化硅基体。 渗碳过程中碳化硼与硅的潜在有害反应可以通过在硅渗透剂与碳化硼接触之前将硼合金化或溶解到硅中来抑制。 在本发明的一个优选实施方案中,具体涉及铠装,通过将一种或多种硬质填料例如碳化硼加载到高度渗透的多孔质量体或预型体,可以提高良好的弹道性能,并且通过限制 弥补质量的最大颗粒。 即时反应粘结碳化硅(RBSC)复合体超过以前的RBSC作为铠装材料,并且在这种能力下接近目前的硬质合金装甲陶瓷的弹道性能,但具有潜在的较低成本的制造方法,例如渗透技术。