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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 588, Issue -, Pages 265-270Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2013.11.089
Keywords
Plasma activated sintering; Al-7075/B4C composites; Microstructure; Bending strength; Compressive strength
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51202175]
- 111 Project [B13035]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [WUT: 2013-II-024]
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In this work, we prepared Al-7075/B4C composites by milling powder mixtures using a shaker-mixer mill, sintering the milled mixtures using plasma activated sintering (PAS), and heat treating the sintered product. To characterize the microstructure of the composites, we used field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Al-7075/B4C composites can be prepared by PAS with high relative densities at low temperature. Increasing the B4C content increased the hardness, bending strength, and compressive yield strength of the composite. However, adding too much B4C caused B4C agglomerates to form, decreasing the hardness and bending strength of the composite. At 7.5 wt.% B4C, the Vickers hardness, bending strength, and compressive strength of the consolidated samples were 184.3 HV, 813 MPa, and 895 MPa, respectively. We attributed these superior mechanical properties to good interfacial bonding between the matrix alloy and the reinforcement. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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