Niobium carbide – Nickel-niobium alloy composites from a nickel coated powder: Microstructural development during sintering
Binder
microstructure
NbC–Ni composite
Materialkemi
Clay industries. Ceramics. Glass
01 natural sciences
NbC-Ni composite
TP785-869
Sintering
Vickers micro-hardness
0103 physical sciences
Materials Chemistry
Microstructure
DOI:
10.1016/j.oceram.2021.100096
Publication Date:
2021-04-03T00:14:00Z
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ABSTRACT
The sintering of a 14 wt% nickel nano-dot coated NbC powder was investigated using dilatometry in combination with XRD, ToF-ERDA, PIXE, SEM-EDS/EBSD/TKD, and TEM-HAADF/EDS/EELS for analysis of samples heated to 1375, 1405 and 1500 °C, with a 30 min annealing. The main sintering step at 1110–1375 °C, was succeeded by a slower step, centred at 1405 °C, before the final smaller densification step to 1500 °C. NbC grain-growth took place on heating at 1500 °C for 30 min; from ca. 0.5–5 μm (average 1 μm) at 1375 and 1405 °C to ca. 5–30 μm (average 10 μm) 1500 °C for 30 min. The NbC0.91-0.94 phase showed a micro-hardness of 1700–2300 HV0.05. The binder phase consisted of the unprecedented textured c-Nb0.15Ni0.85 and h-Nb0.2Ni0.8 phases. The Nb–Ni binder phase yielded micro-hardness values of 1150–1250 (1375–1405 °C) to 810 HV0.05 (1500 °C, 30 min), which greatly exceeds nickel and is higher than Fe3Al.
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