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MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING
Volume 819, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2021.141469
Keywords
Freeze casting; Pressure infiltration; B4C/Al composites; Mechanical properties; Toughening mechanism
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51502053, 52072091, 51621091]
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Freeze casting was used to create nacre-like B4C scaffolds with different lamellar thicknesses, which were infiltrated with 2024Al alloy. The effects of lamellar thickness on damage-tolerance behavior and toughening mechanisms were discussed, showing an increase in strength and toughness in composites with refined lamellae structure.
Freeze casting is a promising approach for assembling lamellar metal-ceramic composites with an exceptional combination of strength and toughness. Although these mechanical properties can be optimized by regulating the microstructure of porous ceramic structures, the effect of lamellar thickness is rarely mentioned, especially for B4C/Al composites. Herein, by controlling the freezing temperature, we used freeze casting to create nacre-like B4C scaffolds with identical ceramic content yet different lamellar thicknesses and then infiltrated them with 2024Al alloy. The effects of lamellar thickness on the damage-tolerance behavior and toughening mechanisms are discussed. The refinement of lamellae decreases the probability of observing catastrophic flaws in ceramic layers, increasing strength from 534 +/- 14 to 578 +/- 15 MPa and increasing crack-initiation toughness (K-Ic) from 9.2 +/- 0.6 to 11.4 +/- 0.2 MPa m(1/2). These composites exhibit higher damage tolerance resulting from several toughening mechanisms, such as plastic deformation, crack deflection and blunting, and the uncracked-ligament bridging of ductile metal layers, which is reflected in the stable crack propagation during fracture and rising Rcurve behavior. Importantly, coarsening of the structure of composites allows the fracture behaviors transform from single to multiple crack propagation, thus absorbing much more fracture energy, with the valid crackgrowth toughness (K-Jc) enhancing markedly from 17.1 +/- 2.4 to 29.8 +/- 2.3 MPa m(1/2).
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