نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی

نویسندگان

پژوهشکده‌ی مواد و سوخت هسته‌ای، پژوهشگاه علوم و فنون هسته‌ای، سازمان انرژی اتمی

چکیده

ترکیبات سه­‌تایی نانولایه­‌ی Ti3SiC2، یک گروه جدید از مواد هستند که ویژگی­‌های فلزها و سرامیک‌­ها را نشان می‌­دهند. Ti3SiC2 شبیه فلزها، هدایت حرارتی و الکتریکی بالا، مقاومت بالا در برابر شوک حرارتی، سختی پایین و ماشین­‌پذیری خوبی را نشان می‌­دهد. هم­چنین Ti3SiC2 مشابه یک سرامیک مدول یانگ بالا، استحکام در دمای بالا و مقاومت در برابر اُکسایش خوبی دارند. در این مقاله، قطعات Ti3SiC2 از طریق مذاب خورانی مایع سیلیکون به درون پیش‌­سازه‌­هایی از پودر TiC سنتز می­‌شود. قرص سیلیکون به شکل منبع فلز مذاب، بالای نمونه­‌ها قرار داده می‌­شود. ترکیب اولیه را می‌­توان با فرمول 3TiC/1.3Si نشان داد. تشکیل فاز و ریزساختار با XRD و SEM مجهز به آنالیز عنصری EDS بررسی شد. نتایج نشان داد که پیش‌­سازه­‌ی TiC، به منظور سنتز مکس فاز با Si وارد واکنش می­شود و در کنار مکس فاز ناخالصی SiC، در سطح مقطع نمونه­‌ها ظاهر می‌­شود. هم­چنین مشخص شد که ترکیب نمونه‌­ها به زمان مذاب خورانی به شدت وابسته است و با افزایش مدت زمان، Ti3SiC2 به ترکیب TiC تجزیه می‌­شود.

کلیدواژه‌ها

عنوان مقاله [English]

Production of Ti3SiC2 Nanolayered Ceramic

نویسندگان [English]

  • H Foratirad
  • M Ghanadi Maragheh
  • H. R Baharvandi

چکیده [English]

The nanolayered ternary compound Ti3SiC2 is a representative of those materials that exhibit the characteristics of both metals and ceramics. Similar to metals, Ti3SiC2 shows high electrical and thermal conductivity, high thermal shock resistance, ductility and good machinability. Further, similar to a ceramic, Ti3SiC2 has a high Young’s modulus, as well as, high temperature strength and oxidation resistance. In this paper, T3SiC2 bulks have been synthesized by infiltrating Si liquid into a porous preform composed of solid TiC powders. Silicon pellets were placed on the top of the precursor pellets as the liquid source. The starting compositions can be represented by the formula 3TiC/1.3Si. The phase formation and microstructure were investigated by the X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) equipped with an energydispersive spectroscopy (EDS) system. The results demonstrated that the TiC preform could react with Si in order to MAX phase synthesis and SiC impurities appeared in the cross section of the samples. It is found that the compositions of the samples strongly depended on the time of infiltration. Moreover, an increase in the time, decomposed Ti3SiC2 into TiC compound.

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • Titanium Carbide
  • Ti3SiC2 MAX Phase
  • Gelcasting
  • Infiltration
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