原位模板法在铝基底上制备TiO2纳米管阵列薄膜

采用液相沉积法，将铝基多孔阳极氧化铝（AAO）模板浸入到（NH4）2TiF6溶液中，制备出高度有序的TiO2纳米管阵列薄膜，并在不同的温度下进行了热处理。用场发射扫描电子显微镜、透射电子显微镜和X射线衍射仪等手段对试样的微观形貌、结构及物相进行了表征。结果表明，TiO2纳米管的形貌依赖于AAO的特征，薄膜是由外径大约200nm，壁厚约40nm的TiO2纳米管阵列组成，薄膜厚度约25μm。原位模板法制备的TiO2纳米管阵列薄膜为非晶态，在400℃空气中焙烧2h转变为锐钛矿相TiO2。经过650℃焙烧仍保持纳米管结构，表现出较好的热稳定性。     

P型Sr0．5Co4-xFexSb12化合物的制备及高温热电性能

采用熔融法结合放电等离子烧结（SPS）技术合成了P型填充方钴矿化合物Sr0．5Co4-xFexSb12，并研究了Fe掺杂对该化合物高温热电性能的影响。采用X．射线衍射（XRD）及电子探针（EPMA）表征了化合物的物相及化学成分，在300～850K温度范围内测试了化合物的电导率、赛贝克系数和热导率，采用Vande Pauw方法测试了化合物的室温载流子浓度。实验结果表明，化合物的主要相组成为Sr0．5Co4-xFexSb12方钴矿相，同时含有少量FeSb2和CoSb2杂质相。化合物的赛贝克系数均为正值，表明为空穴导电。随着Fe掺杂量的增加，化合物的载流子浓度及电导率增加，赛贝克系数降低，晶格热导率降低，最小室温晶格热导率为1．97 Wm^-1K^-2。对于化合物Sr0．5Co2.32Fe1.68Sb12在850K时获得的最大热电性能指数ZT约为0．60。     

Improvement of wear resistance of plasma-sprayed molybdenum blend coatings

The wear resistance of plasma sprayed molybdenum blend coatings applicable to synchronizer rings or piston rings was investigated in this study. Four spray powders, one of which was pure molybdenum and the others blended powders of bronze and aluminum-silicon alloy powders mixed with molybdenum powders, were sprayed on a low-carbon steel substrate by atmospheric plasma spraying. Microstructural analysis of the coatings showed that the phases formed during spraying were relatively homogeneously distributed in the molybdenum matrix. The wear test results revealed that the wear rate of all the coatings increased with increasing wear load and that the blended coatings exhibited better wear resistance than the pure molybdenum coating, although the hardness was lower. In the pure molybdenum coatings, splats were readily fractured, or cracks were initiated between splats under high wear loads, thereby leading to the decrease in wear resistance. On the other hand, the molybdenum coating blended with bronze and aluminum-silicon alloy powders exhibited excellent wear resistance because hard phases such as CuAl₂ and Cu₉Al₄ formed inside the coating.     

A computational fluid dynamic analysis of gas and particle flow in flame spraying

The flame spraying process, which is a common industrial thermal spraying application, has been analyzed by means of three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. The process used at the Volvo Aero Corporation for the coating of fan and compressor housings has been modeled. The process uses the Metco 6P torch (Metco, Westbury, NY), which ejects a mixture of acetylene and oxygen at high speed through a ring of 16 orifices to form the flame. A stream of argon gas flowing through an orifice in the center of the ring carries a powder of nickel-covered bentonite through the flame to the spray substrate. The torch is cooled by a flow of air through an outer ring of 9 orifices. The simulation emulated reality closely by including the individual inlets for fuel, cooling air, and injected particles. The gas combustion was simulated as a turbulent, multicomponent chemically reacting flow. The standard, two-equation k-ε turbulence model was used. The chemical reaction rates appeared as source terms in the species transport equations. They were computed from the contributions of the Arrhenius rate expressions and the Magnussen and Hjertager eddy dissipation model. The first simulations included several intermediate chemical substances whose predicted concentration agreed favorably with measurements. Later, more simplified simulations incorporated only the global chemical reaction involving the initial and the final products, with corrections to the thermal properties being made to account for the missing intermediaries. The gas velocity and temperature fields predicted by the later simulations compared satisfactorily to those predicted by the earlier, more elaborate, ones. Therefore, the final simulations, which incorporated injected particles, were conducted employing the simplified model with only the global reaction. An in-house finite difference code was developed to calculate particle properties. Allowance was made for elliptical shapes, phase changes, and internal heat transfer with regard to the composite material. The particle velocities and temperatures predicted by the final simulations compared fairly well with experimental results obtained with the optical DPV2000 system.     

Influence of the post-deformation annealing heat treatment on the low-cycle fatigue of NiTi shape memory alloys

Shape memory alloys (SMA) suffer from the same impairing mechanisms experienced during cycling loading by classic alloys. Moreover, SMA fatigue behavior is greatly influenced by thermomechanical cycling through the zone of thermoelastic phase transformation, which is the basis of shape memory and superelasticity effects. Since the fatigue resistance of any material can be improved by an appropriate thermomechanical treatment, in the present work combined differential scanning calorimetry and microhardness testing were used to determine an optimum annealing temperature for the cold-worked Ni-50.1%Ti alloy. The optimization is based on the assumption that latent heat of transformation is proportional to the mechanical work generated by SMA upon heating, while material hardness is related to the yield stress of the material. It is supposed that an optimum trade-off in these two properties guarantees the best dimensional and functional stability of SMA devices. The level and stability of the mechanical work generated by the material during low-cycle fatigue testing are considered criteria for the material performance and thus of the validity of the proposed optimization procedure.     

BNi—2钎焊条的真空吸铸工艺

研究了ＢＮｉ－２钎焊条真空吸铸原理，并由试验得出：当ＢＮｉ－２合金加热到１５００℃，真空控制阀门开口为φ６ｍｍ以上，真空度５０ｋＰａ，铸型预热温度５００℃，并用φ内２ｍｍ×５００ｍｍ石英管进行真空吸铸时，吸铸高度可达到４０ｃｍ以上。     

外场处理对低合金钢焊接接头组织和性能的影响

研究了电磁搅拌、氩弧表层处理、超声喷丸处理对低合金钢焊接接头组织和性能的影响。结果表明 :电磁搅拌促进奥氏体晶粒内针状铁素体生成和细化 ,使针状铁素体的含量由 85%提高到 92 % ,从而提高了焊缝金属的韧度。氩弧加热处理使焊缝表层发生熔化和重结晶 ,可消除焊缝表层的柱状晶 ,处理后的组织主要由针状和细晶铁素体组成。对接头焊趾部位进行氩弧快速重熔处理可消除焊趾部位的几何截面突变 ,使焊缝与母材圆滑过渡 ,有利于消除焊趾部位的应力集中 ,对抗应力腐蚀性能十分有益 ;焊趾部位热影响区中粗大的晶粒细化。表面高能喷丸处理使焊接接头表面层形成尺寸均匀的等轴状纳米晶 ,不仅提高了表层的硬度 ,而且可使焊接接头的疲劳强度提高 50 %。     

Elevated temperature Mg-Al-Sr: Creep resistance,mechanical properties,and microstructure

Mg-Al-Sr-based alloys (AJ alloys) have shown superior creep performance and tensile strength at temperatures as high as 175° with stresses up to 70 MPa. Mg-6Al-2.4Sr (AJ62x) exhibits an optimum combination of creep resistance and excellent castability, while AJ62Lx (strontium <2.1) has better ductility than other AJ formulations. The AJ alloy microstructure is characterized by the Al₄Sr-α(Mg) lamellar phase that forms at the interdendritic/grain boundary region of the primary magne sium matrix. Mg-5Al-2Sr (AJ52x) contains a ternary phase that was tentatively named Al₃Mg₁₃Sr. When the strontium level is low in AJ62x, the volume fraction of Al₄Sr is reduced, the aluminum supersaturation of the magnesium primary phase increases, and Mg₁₇Al₁₂ forms. In this article, a mechanism is proposed whereby the creep resistance decreases with the strontium level but the tensile strength and ductility increase. For more information, contact Eric Baril, Noranda, Noranda Technologies Centre, 240 Hymus Pointe-Claire (Montréal), Québec, H9R 1G5 Canada; (514) 630-9347; fax (514) 630-9379; e-mail eric.baril@ntc.noranda.com.