METAL–CERAMIC MIXTURES

Abstract

The present position regarding cermets based on either oxides or carbides as the brittle phase is reviewed. The outlook for oxide systems is to some extent disappointing, since little gain in strength has been found compared with the oxide itself. Oxide cermets do, however, show an intermediate improvement in thermal shock-resistance that is useful in a number of directions. Carbide cermets appear adequate for many high-duty applications so far as thermal shock-resistance is concerned, but improvements in their resistance to mechanical shock are still necessary.

Recent work on ductile ceramics is also reviewed, and the importance of carrying out experiments at high strain rates is emphasized.

Finally, suggestions are made for further work in the field of cermets.     

大塑性变形制备超细晶生物医用钛合金的研究进展

生物医用钛合金具有高强度、良好的耐蚀性能、较低的弹性模量、优异的生物相容性,已成为具有广阔应用前景的医用金属材料之一.与传统医用钛合金相比,超细晶医用钛合金具有更高的强度与更好的疲劳性能以及耐腐蚀性能.此外,超细晶钛合金可诱导骨组织向内生长,增加界面结合强度,加快骨修复进程,在硬组织修复材料领域具有广阔的应用前景.阐述了各种大塑性变形（Severe Plastic Deformation）法制备超细晶生物医用钛合金的研究状况与最新进展,指出了SPD法制备医用钛合金中存在的技术问题和发展方向,并展望了利用SPD法对生物医用钛合金改性将成为生物医用材料的研究热点.     

THE PRODUCTION OF CERMETS CONTAINING A RELATIVELY LARGE AMOUNT OF DISPERSED PHASE

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The preparation and related properties of dispersions of ceramics in metallic matrices are reviewed, with particular reference to recent British work in this field. There have been substantial advances in the fabrication of cermets by powder metallurgy, particularly those based on UO₂ or PUO₂ and stainless steel, it being now possible to manufacture almost perfect dispersions in bar or strip form. Some closer understanding of the mechanical properties of cermets or porous matrices has been achieved. These theoretical and technological developments are capable of wide application to non-nuclear materials.     

WEAR OF HARD-METALS IN ROCK DRILLING: A SURVEY OF THE LITERATURE

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The literature concerning the wear of tungsten carbide-cobalt alloys used as tool bits in rock drilling is surveyed. The possible mechanisms of rock breakage and of tool wear are briefly discussed. Wear takes place as a result of shock impact or impact-fatigue spalling, by abrasion-mainly from the quartz grains in the rock, and also by thermal fatigue. The mechanism that dominates in any given conditions depends on the method of drilling and on the strength and abrasiveness of the rock. For rotary-percussive drilling, impact-fatigue wear and abrasion operate simultaneously,though essentially independently.

Published data on the relations between the wear of WC-Co alloys in rock drilling and their structure and properties are critically discussed. It appears that the resistance to impact wear is a direct function of the bulk compressive or transverse rupture strength and is related to the WC grain size and the Co mean free path. It is directly proportional to the blow energy in percussion. The results indicate that abrasion of WC-Co alloys by quartz is more complicated than abrasion of ‘simpler’ metals by either hard or relatively soft abrasives. The wear in abrasion during running-in is quite high and becomes greater with larger WC grain size, while the steady-state wear rate becomes less. The abrasion-resistance increases with rise in hardness and with decrease in WC grain size and cobalt content, but not in a simple fashion. It is proposed that abrasive wear takes place both by microfracture at the point of abrasive/metal contact and by preferential removal of cobalt. The former factor dominates for hard, brittle alloys and when the abrasive grains have a high resistance to fracture. The latter dominates for softer, more cobalt-rich alloys and when the abrasives are friable.

The considerable need for further research on all aspects of the wear behaviour of these alloys is stressed.     

Properties of bulk metallic glasses

A relatively small number of revolutionary materials have been discovered in the field of physical metallurgy and metal physics in the last several decades, and bulk metallic glasses are among them. Their strength and hardness are considerably higher and their modulus of normal elasticity is considerably lower than that of crystalline alloys, which leads to large stored elastic strain energy. These materials also have very good corrosion resistance. In this article, we present the properties of bulk metallic glasses, in particular, thermal, mechanical, magnetic, and electrical properties, corrosion resistance, as well as the application fields of these alloys.     

THE EFFECT OF PHOSPHORUS ADDITIONS ON THE TENSILE,FATIGUE, AND IMPACT STRENGTH OF SINTERED STEELS BASED ON SPONGE IRON POWDER AND HIGH-PURITY ATOMIZED IRON POWDER

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The mechanisms operating during the sintering of iron-phosphorus PM alloys are discussed, as well as the factors contributing to the unique combination of strength, ductility, and toughness that is characteristic of these materials. Alloying methods are reviewed with special reference to powder compressibility, tool wear during compaction, and homogenization during sintering. The preferred production method is to add phosphorus in the form of a fine Fe₃P powder to iron powder. The mechanical properties of a number of sintered steels made with and without Fe₃P additions to sponge iron or to high-purity atomized iron powders are reported. Use of atomized powder makes it possible to reach extremely high density by single pressing and the resulting phosphorus-containing sintered steels have very high ductility and impact strength. The fatigue strength is related linearly to the tensile strength, with a correlation coefficient of 0·91. It is concluded that structural factors other than those that control ductility and toughness are responsible for the fatigue resistance of sintered steels.     

Titanium alloys in total joint replacement--a materials science perspective

Increased use of titanium alloys as biomaterials is occurring due to their lower modulus, superior biocompatibility and enhanced corrosion resistance when compared to more conventional stainless steels and cobalt-based alloys. These attractive properties were a driving force for the early introduction of alpha (cpTi) and alpha + beta (Ti-6A1-4V) alloys as well as for the more recent development of new Ti-alloy compositions and orthopaedic metastable beta titanium alloys. The later possess enhanced biocompatibility, reduced elastic modulus, and superior strain-controlled and notch fatigue resistance. However, the poor shear strength and wear resistance of titanium alloys have nevertheless limited their biomedical use. Although the wear resistance of beta-Ti alloys has shown some improvement when compared to alpha + beta alloys, the ultimate utility of orthopaedic titanium alloys as wear components will require a more complete fundamental understanding of the wear mechanisms involved. This review examines current information on the physical and mechanical characteristics of titanium alloys used in artifical joint replacement prostheses, with a special focus on those issues associated with the long-term prosthetic requirements, e.g., fatigue and wear.     

Tensile ductility of superplastic ceramics and metallic alloys

Superplastic ceramics and metallic alloys exhibit different trends in tensile ductility in the range where the strain-rate-sensitivity exponent, m, is high (m⩾0.5). The tensile ductility of superplastic metallic alloys (e.g. fine-grained zinc, aluminium, nickel and titanium alloys) is primarily a function of the strain-rate-sensitivity exponent. In contrast, the tensile ductility of superplastic ceramic materials (e.g. zirconia, alumina, zirconia-alumina composites and iron carbide) is not only a function of the strain-rate-sensitivity exponent, but also a function of the parameter ⋗e exp (Q_c/RT) where ⋗e is the steady-state strain rate and Q_c is the activation energy for superplastic flow. Superplastic ceramic materials exhibit a large decrease in tensile elongation with an increase in ⋗e exp (Q_c/RT). This trend in tensile elongation is explained based on a “fracture-mechanics” model. The model predicts that tensile ductility increases with a decrease in flow stress, a decrease in grain size and an increase in the parameter (2γ_s−γ_gb), where γ_s is the surface energy and γ_gb is the grain boundary energy. The difference in the tensile ductility behavior of superplastic ceramics and metallic alloys can be related to their different failure mechanisms. Superplastic ceramics deform without necking and fail by intergranular cracks that propagate perpendicular to the applied tensile axis. In contrast, superplastic metallic alloys commonly fail by intergranular and transgranular (shearing) mechanisms with associated void formation in the neck region.     

Mechanical properties distributions of PM manganese steels analysed by Gaussian and Weibull statistics

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Powder metallurgy (PM) parts acceptance is determined by compositional and processing parameters and their controls. Statistical procedures are used for assessment; normal distribution and 'six sigma' appear to predominate. For fatigue of metallic materials and strengths of ceramics, fibres and composites, however, Weibull probability of survival analyses are widely used. The original analysis considers a threshold stress at which the probability of failure is zero. This stress is frequently taken to be zero, simplifying the analysis to two parameters. The yield stress has been suggested for the threshold stress, probably not sufficiently conservative for less ductile PM materials. A new three-parameter Weibull analysis, in which it is taken to be the fracture strength minus six standard deviations, is presented. Powder metallurgy manganese steels are under commercial consideration and this approach is applied to 12 variants of such laboratory processed specimens. It is compared with the two-parameter Weibull and Gaussian, the least conservative, analyses.     

Effect of Carburization on the Mechanical Properties of Biomedical Grade Titanium Alloys

Titanium cermets were successfully synthesized on the surface of biomedical grade titanium alloys by using sequential carburization method. The mechanical properties such as hardness, fracture toughness and plasticity were measured to estimate the potential application of titanium cermets. The results show that after carburization the surface hardness of titanium cermets was 778 HV, with a significant improvement of 128% compared with that of titanium alloys. In addition, the fracture toughness of titanium cermets was 21.5×106 Pa·m1/2, much higher than that of other ceramics. Furthermore, the analysis of the loading-unloading curve in the nanoindentation test also indicates that the plasticity of titanium cermet reached 32.1%, a relatively high value which illustrates the combination of the metal and ceramics properties. The results suggest that sequential carburization should be an efficient way to produce titanium cermets with hard surface, high toughness and plasticity.     

Thermal conductivity of cermets containing titanium carbide

Conclusions The thermal conductivity of TiC-Nb, TiC-Ta, TiC-Mo, and TiC-W cermets with metal contents of 25, 50, and 75 at.% was investigated at temperatures ranging from 20 to 1100°C. The thermal conductivity of the cermets was found to be much less than that of their metallic constituents. It was established that, at constant temperature, the thermal conductivity of the cermets increases in the order TiC-Nb< TiC-Ta相似文献   

A Brief Review of High Entropy Alloys and Serration Behavior and Flow Units

Multicomponent alloys with high entropy of mixing,e.g.,high entropy alloys (HEAs)and/or multiprin-cipal-element alloys (MEAs),are attracting increasing attentions,because the materials with novel properties are being developed,based on the design strategy of the equiatomic ratio,multicomponent,and high entropy of mixing in their liquid or random solution state.Recently,HEAs with the ultrahigh strength and fracture toughness,excel-lent magnetic properties,high fatigue,wear and corrosion resistance,great phase stability/high resistance to heat-softening behavior,sluggish diffusion effects,and potential superconductivity,etc.,were developed.The HEAs can even have very high irradiation resistance and may have some self-healing effects,and can potentially be used as the first wall and nuclear fuel cladding materials.Serration behaviors and flow units are powerful methods to understand the plastic deformation or fracture of materials.The methods have been successfully used to study the plasticity of amorphous alloys (also bulk metallic glasses,BMGs).The flow units are proposed as:free volumes,shear transi-tion zones (STZs),tension-transition zones (TTZs),liquid-like regions,soft regions or soft spots,etc.The flow units in the crystalline alloys are usually dislocations,which may interact with the solute atoms,interstitial types,or sub-stitution types.Moreover,the flow units often change with the testing temperatures and loading strain rates,e.g., at the low temperature and high strain rate,plastic deformation will be carried out by the flow unit of twinning,and at high temperatures,the grain boundary will be the weak area,and play as the flow unit.The serration shapes are related to the types of flow units,and the serration behavior can be analyzed using the power law and modified power law.     

The thermal fatigue behavior of the combustor alloys In 617 and HAYNES 230 before and after welding

The nickel-base alloys IN 617 and HAYNES 230 for welded high-temperature components have been subjected to thermal fatigue (TF) loading. In a series of TF tests in air, single wedge specimens were induction heated and compressed-air cooled at the leading edge for various temperature cycles between 200 °C and either 850 °C, 950 °C, or 1050 °C. The test rigs permitted simultaneous measurements of temperature and total strain along the edge of specimen during TF cycling. Both materials have been tested in conditions relevant for hot path components in the gas turbines, e.g., “as delivered,” “welded,” and “welded + notched”. Under identical temperature cycles and thermal gradients, HAYNES 230 showed a higher TF strength than IN 617 in the as-delivered condition. It is suggested that this advantage of HAYNES 230 is primarily related to its lower value of the relevant combination of properties of this alloy: coefficient of thermal expansion, thermal conductivity, elastic modulus, ultimate tensile strength, taken at maximal operating temperature. In addition, the advantage of the HAYNES 230 is described by a lower plastic strain, which is induced at the wedge region during TF loading. Moreover, microstructural details of crack initiation, crack propagation, and reactions with the gaseous environment play an important role. Both alloys investigated in the present work showed plastic deformation with a maximum in the central zone of the wedge tip. In this zone, slip bands and grain distortion occurred, whereas both ends of the wedge tip free of visible plastic deformation. The TF cycles led to multiple transgranular crack initiation and propagation. In welded specimens of IN 617 and HAYNES 230, cracks appeared first in the center of the weld. The susceptibility of welds to TF cracking depends considerably on the weld filler and the surface quality. It was shown for HAYNES 230 that a mismatched weld could reduce the TF life to less than 50 pct of non-welded specimens. The lower TF-fatigue strength of the welded specimens can be explained by the difficulty of the cast alloy in the welded zone to accommodate the repeated thermal shocks by plastic deformation. Notches introduced in the heat-affected zone (depth about 0.1 mm) reduced the TF life of both alloys by a factor as high as 4. The thermal fatigue strength of the welded material can almost reach the values of the base alloy provided the use of matching electrodes, post-weld heat treatment, and grinding off the weld beads is carefully executed.     

Mechanical behaviour of Ti<Subscript>5</Subscript>Si<Subscript>3</Subscript> based alloys and composites

The demand for materials to be used in the components operating above 1100°C in advanced aero-engines drives the development of the silicide-based intermetallic alloys and composites, including the titanium silicides. The mechanical behaviour of Ti₅Si₃ and its composites has been reviewed with emphasis on the microstructure-property relationships. It is found that the grain size is a critical parameter, and smaller grain sizes are desirable for reducing the magnitude of internal residual stress caused by the crystallographic anisotropy in coefficients of thermal expansion. The reduction in grain size leads to significant improvement in hardness, room temperature flexural strength and fracture toughness. On the other hand, the high temperature strength observed at slow strain rates and creep resistance are higher in the samples with the coarser grain sizes. Further improvements in the strength, fracture toughness and high temperature creep resistance are possible, either through the development of multiphase alloys, or by the use of ceramic reinforcements in composites.     

热喷涂制备高熵合金涂层的研究现状与展望

首先介绍了高熵合金的理论基础。然后从不同的热喷涂工艺出发,综述了等离子喷涂、超音速火焰喷涂、高速电弧喷涂、冷喷涂四种技术在制备高熵合金涂层上的研究发展现状,重点从原料选用、制备工艺优化、性能研究、后处理工艺等方面对以上四种热喷涂技术制备高熵合金涂层的研究进行系统地归纳与总结。最后提出现有制备高熵合金涂层的热喷涂技术较少、热喷涂材料受限、高熵合金设计盲目这三个问题,针对性地提出了在优化已有技术的基础上开发新技术;开发高熵陶瓷、高熵非晶合金、高熵复合材料等新型热喷涂材料;沿用材料基因组理念建立高熵合金数据库这三点热喷涂制备高熵合金涂层在未来的发展趋势。      

Cyclic fatigue of ceramic materials: Influence of crack path and fatigue mechanisms

Crack propagation under cyclic loading was investigated in non-transforming ceramic materials, such as silicon carbide, silicon nitride and sialon, with different microstructures produced by various processes. Cyclic fatigue crack growth was observed in the intergranular-fracture type materials and never seen in the transgranular-fracture type ones, irrespectively of the kind of materials. The occurrence of intergranular cracking causes (i) microscale-crack branching or crack-path deflection, (ii) grain-particles debonding from the matrix and (iii) production of crack surface-asperities. These have actually been observed in experiments. On the basis of these observations and other data available, the most possible fatigue mechanism for non-transforming ceramics has been proposed. It is based on the consideration that the crack resistance caused by microcrack branching or crack-path deflection during tensile loading and the crack reactivation due to the asperity-contacts during unloading occur repeatedly. These processes result in continuous crack growth under cyclic loading conditions     

ELEVATED-TEMPERATURE COMPACTION OF METALS AND CERAMICS BY GAS PRESSURES

Abstract

Techniques have been developed for the isostatic compaction of metals, cermets, and ceramics with no appreciable variation in density throughout the compacted structure. The temperatures needed are much lower than those normally utilized for sintering, so that a fine-grain, tough structural material can be produced. The starting material may be loose powder, cold-pressed preforms, explosively impacted preforms, coated particles, spherical particles, or vibratory-packed powder.

Toxic materials are easily handed. Since the process is quite adaptable to the preparation of complex shapes by direct compaction of powders, components can be produced from the more expensive materials, such as beryllium and tungsten, with a minimum loss of material during processing.     

Corrosion fatigue of a precipitation-hardened Al-Li-Zr alloy in a 0.5 M sodium chloride solution

Corrosion fatigue (CF) experiments have been performed on a high-purity Al-2.5Li-0.12Zr alloy in a deaerated 0.5 M sodium chloride solution as a function of aging time. The results of these tests were compared to the results of fatigue tests performed in dry air to investigate the effect of aging on the CF susceptibility of the alloy. It was found that the high cycle fatigue strength of the alloy was dramatically reduced by the aqueous environment. Examinations of the relative fatigue strength (Δσ_NaCl/Δσ_air) indicated that the underaged (UA) alloys were more susceptible to CF than the overaged (OA) alloys over the stress ranges studied, but the difference of the susceptibility between the UA and the OA alloys was reduced by decreasing the applied cyclic stress. The evidence suggests that, for the UA Al-Li-Zr alloys, the CF resistance is determined by both slip-enhanced dissolution and hydrogen embrittlement at high stress ranges, while at low stress ranges, the CF life is predominantly controlled by pitting-induced crack initiation regardless of the aging condition of the alloy.     

Ion-plasma protective coatings for gas-turbine engine blades

Evaporated, diffusion, and evaporation—diffusion protective and hardening multicomponent ionplasma coatings for turbine and compressor blades and other gas-turbine engine parts are considered. The processes of ion surface treatment (ion etching and ion saturation of a surface in the metallic plasma of a vacuum arc) and commercial equipment for the deposition of coatings and ion surface treatment are analyzed. The specific features of the ion-plasma coatings deposited from the metallic plasma of a vacuum arc are described, and the effect of the ion energy on the phase composition of the coatings and the processes occurring in the surface layer of an article to be treated are discussed. Some properties of ion-plasma coatings designed for various purposes are presented. The ion surface saturation of articles made from structural materials is shown to change the structural and phase states of their surfaces and, correspondingly, the related properties of these materials (i.e., their heat resistance, corrosion resistance, fatigue strength, and so on).     

Interfacial Shear Strength of Oxide Scale and SS 441 Substrate

Recent developments on decreasing the operating temperature for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) have enabled the use of high-temperature ferritic alloys as interconnect materials. Oxide scale will inevitably grow on the ferritic interconnects in a high-temperature oxidation environment of SOFCs. The growth of the oxide scale induces growth stresses in the scale layer and on the scale/substrate interface. These growth stresses combined with the thermal stresses induced after stacking cooling by the thermal expansion coefficient mismatch between the oxide scale and the substrate may lead to scale delamination/buckling and eventual spallation, which may lead to serious cell performance degradation. Hence, the interfacial adhesion strength between the oxide scale and the substrate is crucial to the reliability and durability of the metallic interconnect in SOFC operating environments. In this article, we applied an integrated experimental/modeling methodology to quantify the interfacial adhesion strength between the oxide scale and the SS 441 metallic interconnect. The predicted interfacial strength is discussed in detail.