WEAR STUDIES ON THE HEAT TREATED AL6061 ΜSIC AND AL6061 NSIC METAL MATRIX COMPOSITES

Carbon matrices are typically weak, brittle, low-stiffness materials. As a result, transverse and through-thickness elastic moduli and strength properties of unidirectional CCCs are low. Because of this, three-dimensional reinforcement forms are used in some applications.
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Laminated Si/SiC ceramics were synthesized from porous preforms of biogenous carbon impregnated with Si slurry at a temperature of 1500 C for 2 h. Due to the capillarity infiltration with Si, both intrinsic micro- and macrostructure in the carbon preform were retained within the final ceramics. The[r]

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Using HRTEM, we found that the fabricated SiC nanowires can be grouped into three types of one-dimension structures. They are described as follows:
(1) Ordinary SiC nanowires, as is indicated by (1) in Fig. 3a: this figure presents a typical morphology of the ordinary SiC