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FUSION ENGINEERING AND DESIGN
Volume 121, Issue -, Pages 366-372Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2017.07.026
Keywords
W-TiC alloy; Wet-chemical method; Microstructure characterization; Mechanical properties; Thermal conductivities
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- ITERNational Magnetic Confinement Fusion Program [2014 GB123000]
- Beijing Municipal Key Lab for Advanced Energy Materials and Technologies
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W-(0-0.9)TiC (wt.%) alloys were prepared by a wet-chemical method and spark plasma sintering. The effects of TiC content on the microstructures, mechanical properties, and thermal conducting properties of the prepared W-TiC alloys were investigated. The results revealed that the average grain size of the W-(0-0.9)TiC alloys decreased, and their average TiC particle size increased with the increase of TiC content. The bending fracture strengths of the prepared samples increased significantly with increased TiC content in the range of 0-0.5%, which was attributed to the uniform distribution of TiC particles with a high proportion located in the tungsten grain interiors. The W-0.5TiC alloy exhibited the best mechanical properties with the highest relative density, bending strength, and flexural strain of 97.61%, 1065.72 MPa, and 1.23%, respectively. Moreover, the thermal conductivities of the W-(0.1-0.5)TiC alloys were slightly lower than those of pure tungsten at all testing temperatures. However, the mechanical properties and thermal conducting properties of the W-0.7TiC and W-0.9TiC alloys were significantly deteriorated due to the non-uniform aggregation of TIC particles at the tungsten grain boundaries.
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