粉末冶金法制备铝基复合材料及其性能表征-材料学专业论文.docxVIP

Preparation and characterization of aluminum matrix composite by powder metallurgy ABSTRACT Particles reinforced aluminum matrix composites have been widely used in structural materials due to their high ratios of stiffness -quality and strength-quality. It makes them excellent structural light materials that they show good friction, thermal conductivity and low coefficient of thermal expansion, which makes it possible to apply particles reinforced aluminum matrix composites to aircrafts and transportation. Carbon nanotubes due to their good mechanical properties and perfect structure have been considered as ideal reinforcement s of light structural composites. It is revealed that multi-wall carbon nanotubes Young modulus reaches 1.8 TPa and tensile strength 150 GPa, while the density only is 1.8 g/cm3. Carbon nanotube reinforced aluminum matrix composites have been extensively applied because of the properties of lightness, high strength and good friction. The graphenes due to their excellent properties is being paid attention to recently and applied to aluminum matrix composites. In this research three kind of reinforcements in cluding nano-SiC particles, multi-wall carbon nanotubes, single-wall carbon nanotubes and graphenes were added to aluminum matrix to prepare the composites by powder metallurgy route consisting of ball milling, cold compaction, sintering, hot pressing and hot extrusion, in which pressure sintering was divided to pressureless sintering and hot pressing. Universal testing machine, Brinell hardness tester, Friction -abrasion testing machine, Coefficient of thermal expansion tester, Electrochemical workstation, XRD and SEM were respectively used to characterize the properties of composites including tensile strength, brinell hardness, friction, coefficient of thermal expansion, corrosion resistance, the phases and fracture morphology. It is revealed that when the addition of nano-SiC particles is 5wt% the tensile strength is 215 MPa, which inc