Abstract
Obtaining bulk copper-based composite materials with improved physical and mechanical properties often requires pre-treatment of the initial raw materials. Especially it concerns metal matrix composites (MMC) containing copper as a matrix and silicon carbide as a reinforcing component. However, the final properties of Cu/SiC MMC depend on successful solving the problem of silicon solubility in liquid-phase copper during the sintering process. In this work, we demonstrate the possibility of high-energy treatment of copper and silicon carbide by the plasma dynamic method to obtain a pre-activated charge for further sintering. Analytical studies by X-ray diffractomtery (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) methods testify to the possibility of obtaining highly dispersed composite Cu/SiC materials of different phase and grain size composition depending on the synthesis conditions. The application of polymodal Cu/SiC powders pre-activated by the plasma dynamic method as a charge is established to ensure producing bulk samples by the spark plasma sintering (SPS) method and allow increasing the relative density by ~ 5%–10% and the hardness of the final products by more than 30% compared with pure copper samples produced by the same method.
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Shanenkov, I., Nikitin, D., Nassyrbayev, A. et al. Plasma Dynamic Synthesis of Dispersed Cu/SiC Composites with a Controlled Phase Composition. Met. Mater. Int. 30, 814–831 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12540-023-01533-4
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