Processing and impact behavior of Al/SiCp composites fabricated by the pressureless melt infiltration method |
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Authors: | AM Zahedi HR Rezaie J Javadpour Mehdi Mazaheri MG Haghighi |
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Affiliation: | 1. Faculty of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran;2. Materials and Energy Research Center (MERC), P.O. Box 14155-477, Tehran, Iran |
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Abstract: | In the current investigation, pressureless melt infiltration was applied to fabricate the Al/SiC composites based on the SiC porous preforms. The process was conducted by introducing the aluminum melt into the SiC preforms at 950 °C under the nitrogen atmosphere, without the aid of pressure. To explore development of melt infiltration, initial preforms were produced with variable SiC fractions (40, 50, and 60 vol.%) using three different SiC powders with the mean particle size of 20, 50, and 90 μm. While the infiltration of aluminum melt into the preforms with 40 vol.% initial SiC volume fraction (SiC particle size of 90 μm) resulted to the composites with final density of 0.94 theoretical density (TD), this value drops down to ~0.9 TD for the composites produced by preforms with the SiC (90 μm) volume fraction of 60 vol.%. On the other hand, composites fabricated by 50 μm SiC powder (SiC volume fraction of 40 vol.%) demonstrated the final density of ~0.91 TD. The impact resistance tests performed on the composites demonstrated an enhancement in the value of impact energy with an increase of SiC powder particle size. Results, additionally, revealed a significant superiority of impact energy for the composites fabricated by a combined melt infiltration and sintering (MIS) procedure compared to those produced by infiltration at 950 and 1350 °C. |
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