Activation sintering preparation method of ultrafine-grained pure molybdenum metal material
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of molybdenum metal materials, and particularly relates to an activation sintering preparation method of an ultrafine-grained pure molybdenum metal material.
Background
Molybdenum metal is a commonly used high-temperature material, has the advantages of high melting point, high strength, high creep deformation and corrosion resistance, low thermal expansion coefficient, excellent thermal conductivity and electronic conductivity and the like, and has very wide application in the fields of aerospace, electronic and electric products, machining, military, metallurgy and the like. With the rapid development of economy and industry, the application of molybdenum metal materials in aspects of high and new technology weaponry, advanced science and technology, nuclear energy development and the like is further expanded, and higher requirements are put forward on the mechanical properties of the molybdenum metal materials.
The sintering temperature of the molybdenum metal material is usually about 1900 ℃, and because the molybdenum metal powder is very sensitive to the sintering temperature and can grow rapidly when meeting high temperature in the sintering process, the grain size of the molybdenum metal material prepared by the traditional method is larger (more than 50 mu m), so that the molybdenum metal material has larger brittleness, and the improvement of yield strength and tensile strength is limited; at the same time, higher sintering temperatures also consume more energy.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide an activation sintering preparation method of an ultrafine-grained pure molybdenum metal material, which can effectively reduce the sintering temperature of the molybdenum metal material and achieve higher density so as to obtain an ultrafine-grained structure.
The activation sintering preparation method of the ultrafine-grained pure molybdenum metal material comprises the following steps:
1) preparing ball-milled molybdenum powder: taking a proper amount of molybdenum powder, putting the molybdenum powder into a ball milling tank according to a certain ball material ratio, and performing high-energy ball milling activation to obtain ball-milled molybdenum powder;
2) preparing a blank: pressing the powder subjected to ball milling in the step 1) as required to obtain a blank;
3) preparing a pure molybdenum sintered product: putting the blank in the step 2) into a sintering furnace; sintering and forming are carried out under the hydrogen atmosphere according to set parameters to obtain the pure molybdenum metal.
In the step 1), the molybdenum powder is industrial molybdenum powder, and the Fischer-Tropsch type particle size is 2-6 mu m; the ball milling process is dry milling under protective gas: the revolution speed of ball milling is 300-600 r/min; the ball-material ratio is (10-30) to 1; the total ball milling time is 12-96 h; introducing inert gas for protection during ball milling; after the ball milling is finished, the powder in the ball milling tank can be taken out after the ball milling tank is cooled to the room temperature.
Preferably, the inert atmosphere is argon atmosphere, the revolution speed of ball milling is 350r/min, the ball-material ratio is 10:1, and the total ball milling time is 24 h.
In the step 2), the pressing pressure is 200-400 MPa, the pressing mode is one-way pressing or cold isostatic pressing, and the pressure maintaining time is 60-120 s.
Preferably, the pressing pressure is 300MPa, the pressing mode is one-way pressing or cold isostatic pressing, and the dwell time is 120 s.
In the step 3), sintering treatment is carried out in the whole hydrogen atmosphere, wherein the sintering temperature is 1300-1600 ℃; when the temperature is lower than 1000 ℃, the heating rate is 8-12 ℃/min, the sintering temperature is 1000 ℃, and the heating rate is 4-6 ℃/min; the heat preservation time is 2-6 h, and the hydrogen flow is 0.8-2.0L/min.
Preferably, the sintering temperature is 1400 ℃, the heating rate is 10 ℃/min and 1000-1400 ℃ when the temperature is lower than 1000 ℃ in the sintering process, and the heating rate is 5 ℃/min; the heat preservation time is 2h, and the hydrogen flow is 0.8L/min.
The molybdenum metal sintered compact is prepared according to the method.
The principle of the invention is as follows: according to the invention, molybdenum powder is prepared by high-energy ball milling, molybdenum powder particles are refined, and sintering activation energy is reduced, so that higher density can be achieved at a lower sintering temperature during sintering, and finer granularity is ensured.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
1) according to the invention, the molybdenum powder is activated by adopting a high-energy ball milling method, so that the agglomeration of the molybdenum powder can be effectively reduced, the particle size of the molybdenum powder is uniformly reduced, and the sintering activation energy is reduced; the ball milling process is relatively simple and can be applied in large scale.
2) The invention adopts hydrogen atmosphere sintering, the equipment requirement is not high, and meanwhile, the sintering temperature is 1400 ℃, compared with the traditional sintering temperature of about 1900 ℃, the energy can be effectively saved; more importantly, the ultra-fine crystal grains of the molybdenum sintering blank can be realized through low-temperature sintering, so that higher mechanical properties can be obtained.
3) The density of the molybdenum blank obtained by sintering at 1400 ℃ by adopting the method provided by the invention is more than 95%, the grain size is relatively uniform and is about 5-6 mu m, and the hardness is greatly improved to 438.3HV which is far higher than that of a sintered blank (100HV) of non-ball-milled industrial molybdenum powder.
Drawings
FIG. 1 is a scanning electron micrograph of the original commercial molybdenum powder of example 1;
FIG. 2 is a scanning electron microscope image of the molybdenum powder prepared in example 1 after ball milling at 350 r/min;
FIG. 3 is a scanning electron micrograph of a sintered molybdenum alloy billet prepared in example 1;
FIG. 4 is a scanning electron micrograph of a sintered molybdenum alloy billet prepared at 1800 ℃ according to comparative example 3.
Detailed Description
Example 1
Weighing 100g of industrial molybdenum powder, wherein the appearance of the industrial molybdenum powder is shown in figure 1, the average particle size of the industrial molybdenum powder is 3 mu m, putting the industrial molybdenum powder into a ball milling tank, the ball-material ratio is 10:1, and the ball milling revolution speed is 350 r/min; the total time of ball milling is 24 hours, and the machine is stopped for 8-10 min every 1 hour of ball milling; argon is introduced as protective gas during ball milling, the appearance after ball milling is shown in figure 2, and the comparison between figure 1 and figure 2 shows that the molybdenum powder after ball milling has better dispersibility and the particle size is obviously reduced.
And taking the molybdenum powder subjected to ball milling out in a glove box under the argon atmosphere, putting the molybdenum powder into a prepared die, and performing unidirectional pressing at the pressing pressure of 300MPa for 120s to obtain a blank.
Putting the pressed blank into a hydrogen sintering furnace, ensuring the hydrogen sintering atmosphere, checking the purity and igniting, and increasing and decreasing the temperature speed: when the temperature is reduced to 700 ℃, the temperature can be naturally cooled along with the furnace; the sintering temperature is 1400 ℃, the heat preservation time is 2h, the hydrogen flow is 0.8L/min, and when the temperature is reduced to be below 80 ℃, a sample is taken out. The obtained molybdenum metal sintered blank has a density of 95% and a hardness of 438.3 HV.
Comparative example 1
The sintering raw material is unprocessed industrial molybdenum powder, the process parameters in all other preparation processes are basically consistent with those in the embodiment 1, and the sintering temperature is 1400 ℃. As can be seen from the data in Table 1, the density of the sample of comparative example 2 is only 85.54%, and the hardness is less than 90HV, which is a great difference from that of example 1.
Comparative example 2
Only the ball milling rotation speed is changed to be 100r/min, the process parameters in all other preparation processes are basically consistent with those in the embodiment 1, and the sintering temperature is 1400 ℃. As can be seen from the data in Table 1, the density and hardness of the sample of comparative example 1 are greatly reduced compared with those of example 1, which shows that a molybdenum sintered compact with high density and high hardness can be obtained at a lower sintering temperature only when the ball milling rotation speed reaches a higher value.
TABLE 1 comparison of properties of molybdenum metals prepared under different conditions
Material sample
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Relative density/%
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hardness/HV
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Example 1
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95.37
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438.3
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Comparative example 1
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85.54
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87.2
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Comparative example 2
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91.39
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149.9
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Comparative example 3
The sintering raw material is unprocessed industrial molybdenum powder, the process parameters in all other preparation processes are basically consistent with those in the embodiment 1, and the sintering temperature is 1800 ℃. The micro-topography is shown in fig. 4.
As can be seen from a comparison of FIGS. 3 and 4, the grain size of the sample in example 1 is about 10 μm, while the grain size of the comparative sample is about 50 μm, indicating that the low-temperature sintering method is effective in controlling the grains of the sintered molybdenum compact.
Example 2
Weighing 100g of industrial molybdenum powder, wherein the appearance of the industrial molybdenum powder is shown in figure 1, the average particle size is 3 mu m, putting the industrial molybdenum powder into a ball milling tank, the ball-material ratio is 20:1, and the ball milling revolution speed is 450 r/min; the total time of ball milling is 36h, and the machine is stopped for 8-10 min every 1h of ball milling; argon is introduced as protective gas during ball milling to obtain the molybdenum powder after ball milling.
And taking the molybdenum powder subjected to ball milling out in a glove box under the argon atmosphere, putting the molybdenum powder into a prepared die, and performing unidirectional pressing at the pressing pressure of 200MPa for 80s to obtain a blank.
Putting the pressed blank into a hydrogen sintering furnace, ensuring the hydrogen sintering atmosphere, checking the purity and igniting, and increasing and decreasing the temperature speed: when the temperature is reduced to 700 ℃, the temperature can be naturally cooled along with the furnace; the sintering temperature is 1300 ℃, the heat preservation time is 6h, the hydrogen flow is 1.5L/min, and when the temperature is reduced to be below 80 ℃, a sample is taken out. Obtaining a molybdenum metal sintering blank, wherein the density of the molybdenum metal sintering blank reaches 95.1%; the hardness is up to 422 HV.
Example 3
Weighing 100g of industrial molybdenum powder, wherein the appearance of the industrial molybdenum powder is shown in figure 1, the average particle size is 3 mu m, putting the industrial molybdenum powder into a ball milling tank, the ball-material ratio is 25:1, and the ball milling revolution speed is 550 r/min; the total time of ball milling is 12 hours, and the machine is stopped for 8-10 min every 1 hour of ball milling; argon is introduced as protective gas during ball milling to obtain the molybdenum powder after ball milling.
And taking the molybdenum powder subjected to ball milling out in a glove box under the argon atmosphere, putting the molybdenum powder into a prepared die, and performing unidirectional pressing at the pressing pressure of 400MPa for 60s to obtain a blank.
Putting the pressed blank into a hydrogen sintering furnace, ensuring the hydrogen sintering atmosphere, checking the purity and igniting, and increasing and decreasing the temperature speed: when the temperature is reduced to 700 ℃, the temperature can be naturally cooled along with the furnace when the temperature is reduced to 1000 ℃, 12 ℃/min, 1000-1500 ℃, 6 ℃/min; the sintering temperature is 1500 ℃, the heat preservation time is 3.5h, the hydrogen flow is 2.0L/min, and when the temperature is reduced to be below 80 ℃, a sample is taken out. Obtaining a molybdenum metal sintering blank, wherein the density of the molybdenum metal sintering blank reaches 96.3%; the hardness is up to 445 HV.