Spark plasma sintering is used to produce dense silicon nitride nanoceramics with titanium nitride additions and nanofiber-strengthened composites. The sintered nanocomposites demonstrate quite high mechanical properties (HV ≈ 14–16 GPa, K Ic ≈ 4.8 MPa ∙ m 1/2 ) and low dry friction coefficient (f ≈ 0.65–0.68) and mass wear (~0.2–0.4 mg/km) against ShKh15 steel. The nanocomposite strengthened with 3.8 wt.% silicon nitride nanofibers shows the most balanced mechanical and tribotechnical characteristics.
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The authors thank the Science and Technology Center in Ukraine (Project No. 4259) and National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Project 4.10.3.9 “Development of Research and Industrial Technologies for Manufacturing Nanostructured Tool and Wear-Resistant Nitride Ceramics”). We also appreciate the assistance of Axel Bales and Kerstin Sempf (IKTS, Dresden, Germany) in our research.
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Translated from Poroshkovaya Metallurgiya, Vol. 53, Nos. 11–12 (500), pp. 78–87, 2014.
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Kolesnichenko, V.G., Zgalat-Lozinskii, O.B., Varchenko, V.T. et al. Friction and Wear of TiN–Si3N4 Nanocomposites Against ShKh15 Steel. Powder Metall Met Ceram 53, 680–687 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11106-015-9663-1
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