Preparation method of in-situ titanium diboride and aluminum oxide composite reinforced aluminum-based composite material
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the field of metal matrix composite materials, and particularly provides an in-situ TiB2Particles and Al2O3The preparation method of whisker composite reinforced aluminum-based composite material can melt matrix alloy and enhance phaseThe generation is carried out synchronously, the preparation process flow of the composite material is obviously shortened, the manufacturing cost of the metal-based composite material is reduced, and the method can be widely applied to occasions requiring light high-strength composite materials.
Background
The development of modern science and technology has increasingly raised requirements on materials, and the materials are expected to have certain special properties and excellent comprehensive properties, so that the common single material is increasingly difficult to meet the requirements. The composite material has the advantages of exerting the synergistic effect of the raw materials, integrating the advantages of various materials, and having great freedom of material design, thereby showing strong vitality and being rapidly developed in the past decades.
According to the principle of material design, the reinforcing phase particles and the reinforcing and toughening whiskers which are dispersed and distributed are introduced into the matrix at the same time, so that the strength, the wear resistance and the creep resistance of the composite material can be improved at the same time. Songchuntai et al (self-reinforced SiC)w/Si3N4Preparation and performance studies of composite materials, proceedings for silicates, 1993, 1: 1-8) investigating SiCw/Si3N4Composite material, 15 vol% SiC obtainedw/Si3N4The composite material has excellent mechanical property, a steep peak and the like (crystal characteristics and internal defects of β -SiC crystal whisker prepared by a carbothermic method, silicate report, 1993, 2: 33-36) synthesizes β -SiC crystal whisker by using ultrafine carbon powder to thermally reduce kaolin, and the result shows that the synthesis temperature has obvious influence on the crystal morphology of the crystal whisker2O3The crystal whisker has excellent comprehensive performance, melting point of 2040 deg.c and density of 3.96 x 103kg/m3Tensile Strength (σ)b) Is 21X 103MPa,σbA/[ rho]of 53X 104m, elastic modulusThe amount (E) is 4.3X 105MPa, E/rho of 11 x 105m。TiB2The alloy has high melting point, hardness and modulus, and good corrosion resistance, and is increasingly widely applied as a reinforcing phase in metal matrix composite materials. The applicant's research shows (Effect of Ti/catalysis on the formation of Al3Ti of in situ TiC/Al composites,Materials&Design,2001,22(8):645-650;Effect of Ti/B Additions on the Foration of Al3Ti of insitu TiB2Al Composites, Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing, 1999, 4: 285-2The performance of the particle reinforced aluminum matrix composite material is superior to that of the TiC particle reinforced aluminum matrix composite material. In the invention, an in-situ TiB is provided2Particles and Al2O3The preparation method of the whisker composite reinforced aluminum-based composite material can be widely applied to occasions requiring light-weight high-strength composite materials.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to: providing an in-situ TiB2Particles and Al2O3The preparation method of the whisker composite reinforced aluminum-based composite material is used in occasions requiring light high-strength composite materials.
The invention is composed of: fusion casting-in-situ reaction TiB2Particles and Al2O3The preparation method of the whisker composite reinforced aluminum-based composite material is characterized by comprising the following steps of: the process comprises two stages of preparing a precast block and melting an aluminum-based composite material:
a. preparing a precast block: al produced by fusion casting-in-situ reaction method2O3Whiskers in which the oxygen originates mainly from: oxygen in the air, impurity oxygen brought by the in-situ reactant, oxygen adsorbed on the surface of the powder, oxygen adsorbed on the surface of the precast block and oxygen brought by the in-situ reactant. In order to increase Al in the composite material2O3The amount of whiskers is necessary to further increase the oxygen content of the preform. To this end, three classes of reactants may be selected (of course, of the second class of reactantsB may also be added2O3TiO can also be added into the third reactant2):
ti, B, TiO mentioned in the above first, second and third categories2And B2O3The powder is powder, the particle size range is 10-250 mu m, and the purity is more than 96.0 weight percent.
When the first type of reactants are combined, the ratio (weight ratio) of Ti to B is 1.5-2.8: 1; when combined as a second type of reactant, TiO2The proportion range (weight ratio) of B and B is 2.8-4.2: 1; when combined as a third type of reactant, Ti, B and B2O3The ratio (weight ratio) of the components is 1: 5.5-7: 1.
Putting the raw materials into a mixer according to a stoichiometric ratio, uniformly mixing, and then pressing and forming the uniformly mixed raw materials at room temperature, wherein the pressure range is 25-100 MPa;
b. melting the composite material: putting 70-99.9% of matrix alloy Al and alloy thereof into a medium-frequency induction furnace for heating, wherein the heating temperature is 150-250 ℃ above the melting point of the alloy; then, the prefabricated block accounting for 1-10 wt% of the alloy is put into a furnacePressing into an alloy melt, and preserving heat: 1-30 minutes. Refining, degassing and forming, wherein the forming mode is pouring metal mold and sand mold or forming by using extrusion and die casting methods to obtain in-situ reaction TiB2Particles and Al2O3The whisker is compounded and strengthened with the aluminum-based composite material.
In situ reaction TiB2Particles and Al2O3The principle of the whisker composite reinforced aluminum-based composite material preparation technology is as follows: according to the requirements of material design, proper reactants are selected, and at proper temperature, by means of the chemical reaction between the base metal or alloy and the base metal or alloy, the in-situ generated material has fine size and uniform distributionThe reinforcing phase of (1). Compared with the traditional composite technology of the metal matrix composite material, the technology has the advantages that: (1) the reinforced phase is generated in situ in the matrix, and the surface is free of pollution; (2) the number of the enhancement phases can be adjusted within a certain range; (3) the strength and the elastic modulus of the composite material can be greatly improved while the higher toughness of the composite material is kept.
The invention has the advantages that: (1) TiB2Particles and Al2O3The crystal whisker is generated by in-situ reaction in the melt, the utilization rate of the reinforced phase is high, and the crystal whisker and the particles are distributed more uniformly in the alloy matrix. (2) Simple process, low cost and easy realization of industrialization.
Drawings
FIG. 1 is an X-ray diffraction pattern of a Ti-B-Al reaction block in the present invention. As can be seen, the reaction mass is represented by TiB2、Al2O3And Al. The scanning electron microscope tissue observation and the energy spectrum analysis confirm the generated Al2O3Whiskers rather than particles.
FIG. 2 is an in situ TiB of the present invention2Particles and Al2O3And scanning the structure of the whisker composite reinforced aluminum-based composite material.
Detailed Description
Example 1
Preparation of Al2O3Whiskers (indeterminate weight%, the same applies hereinafter) and 3 wt% TiB2Industrial pure aluminum composite material. Al powder, Ti powder and B powder with purity of 98%, 96% and 99% and particle size of 75 μm, 45 μm and 1 μm respectively are weighed according to the proportion of Al, Ti and B of 50: 35: 15 (weight percent) and mixed uniformly. Pressing into cylindrical prefabricated blocks with the diameter of 20X 30mm on a 50-ton press. 2 kg of industrial pure aluminum is melted in a medium frequency induction furnace and heated to 850 ℃. And pressing 0.12 kg of prefabricated blocks into the aluminum liquid by using a graphite bell jar, and keeping the temperature for 10 minutes. When the temperature is reduced to 750 ℃, hexachloroethane accounting for 0.4 weight percent of the molten liquid is added for refining. When the temperature of the melt is 720 ℃, pouring the melt into a metal moldTo obtain Al2O3Whiskers and 3 wt% TiB2Industrial pure aluminum composite material. Composite material sigmab168MPa and an elongation delta of 13%.
Example 2
Preparation of Al2O3Whiskers and 5% by weight of TiB2The Al-21Si-2.5Cu composite material. In the ratio of Al to TiO2Weighing appropriate amount of Al powder and TiO powder with purity of 98%, 96% and 99% and particle size of 75 μm, 75 μm and 1 μm respectively at a ratio of B to B of 50: 40: 10 (weight%)2Mixing the powder with the powder B, and mixing uniformly. Pressing into cylindrical prefabricated blocks with the diameter of 20X 30mm on a 50-ton press. 4 kg of Al-21Si-2.5Cu alloy is put into a medium frequency induction furnace to be melted and heated to 950 ℃. And pressing 0.40 kg of prefabricated blocks into the aluminum liquid by using a graphite bell jar, and keeping the temperature for 15 minutes. When the temperature is reduced to 740 ℃, hexachloroethane accounting for 0.4 percent of the weight of the molten liquid is added for refining. Pouring into a metal mold when the temperature of the melt is 730 ℃ to obtain Al2O3Whiskers and 5 wt% TiB2The Al-21Si-2.5Cu composite material. Composite material sigmabIs 420 MPa.
Example 3
Preparation of Al2O3Whiskers and 5% by weight of TiB2The/7075 composite material. According to the ratio of Al to Ti to B2O3Weighing appropriate amount of Al powder and TiO powder with purity of 98%, 96% and 99% and particle size of 75 μm, 45 μm and 1 μm at 35: 30: 5: 30 (wt.%), respectively2Mixing the powder, Ti powder and B powder. Pressing into cylindrical prefabricated blocks with the diameter of 20X 30mm on a 50-ton press. 4 kg of 7075 aluminum alloy is melted in a medium frequency induction furnace and heated to 900 ℃. And pressing 0.50 kg of prefabricated block into the aluminum liquid by using a graphite bell jar, and keeping the temperature for 10 minutes. Adding hexachloroethane accounting for 0.3 percent of the weight of the molten liquid for refining. Pouring into a metal mold when the temperature of the melt is 730 ℃ to obtain Al2O3Whiskers and 5 wt% TiB2The/7075 composite material. Composite material sigma after extrusionb685 MPa.