《Microstructure and mechanical properties of NbSi alloys fabricated by spark plasma sintering》.pdfVIP

Progress in Natural Science: Materials International 2013;23(1):55–63 Chinese Materials Research Society Progress in Natural Science: Materials International /locate/pnsmi ORIGINAL RESEARCH Microstructure and mechanical properties of Nb–Si alloys fabricated by spark plasma sintering Wei Liu, Yongming Fu, Jiangbo Shan School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, 37 Xueyuan Road, Beijing 100191, PR China Received 24 July 2012; accepted 25 December 2012 KEYWORDS Abstract This paper deals with microstructural evolutions and mechanical properties of Nb–Si binaries containing dual-phase Nb/Nb Si with Nb to Nb Si fraction ratios of 90:10, 80:20, 70:30 Nb–Si alloy; 5 3 5 3 Spark plasma and 50:50, prepared by spark plasma sintering (SPS). Dense Nb/Nb5Si3 samples with a relative sintering (SPS); density larger than 99.5% were obtained by SPS processing. The SPS samples consist of the Nb and Phase fraction; Nb5Si3 phases with less than 3% fraction of NbO oxide. Hv at room temperature, and compressive Fracture toughness; strength at 1150 1C and 1250 1C of the bulk SPS alloys increase monolithically by enhancing High-temperature fraction of the stiffening Nb5Si3 phase. For example, 0.2% yield strength, s0.2, increases from strength 175 MPa to 420 MPa at 1150 1C and from 110 MPa to 280 MPa at 1250 1C, when the Nb5Si3 fraction i