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POWDER METALLURGY
Volume 61, Issue 1, Pages 64-72Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00325899.2017.1393162
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Spark plasma sintering; reinforcement; high entropy alloys; powder metallurgy; SIC; hardness
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In this work a traditional high entropy alloy (FeCoNiCrAl) was reinforced by uniformly distributed reactive silicon carbide (SiC) particles by a powder metallurgy synthetic route, using as precursors simply mixed powders or mechanically prealloyed ones. The reactive sintering produced a single isomorphic BCC structure. The sample microstructure resulted equiassic, more homogenous in samples based on prealloyed powders. The instability of SiC in the presence of metal precursors resulted in the formation of more stable carbides and silicides, as well as in carbon diffusion in the high entropy alloy matrix and partially unreacted SiC particles. The formation of these newly formed fine precipitates, as well as the presence of residual SiC were useful to increase the hardness of the alloy.
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