Fabrication of mullite-boned porous silicon carbide ceramics by in situ reaction bonding精选.pdfVIP

Journal of the European Ceramic Society 27 (2007) 2095–2102 Fabrication of mullite-bonded porous silicon carbide ceramics by in situ reaction bonding Shuqiang Ding a,b , Sumin Zhu c , Yu-Ping Zeng a,∗, Dongliang Jiang a a Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai 200050, China b Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China c Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO 65409, USA Received 17 December 2005; received in revised form 1 June 2006; accepted 5 June 2006 Available online 7 September 2006 Abstract An in situ reaction bonding technique was developed to fabricate mullite-bonded porous silicon carbide (SiC) ceramics in air from SiC and -Al2 O3 , using graphite as the pore-former. Graphite is burned out to produce pores and the surface of SiC is oxidized to SiO2 at high temperature. With further increasing the temperature, the amorphous SiO2 converts into cristobalite and reacts with -Al O to form mullite (3Al O ·2SiO ). SiC 2 3 2 3 2 particles are bonded by the mullite and oxidation-derived SiO2 to obtain porous SiC ceramics. The reaction bonding behavior, open porosity, pore size distribution and mechanical strength of porous SiC ceramics were investigated as a function of the sintering temperature, forming pressure and graphite content. In addition, the phase composition and microstructure were also studied. © 2006 Els