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• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
  • B22F—WORKING METALLIC POWDER; MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES FROM METALLIC POWDER; MAKING METALLIC POWDER; APPARATUS OR DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR METALLIC POWDER
  • B22F3/00—Manufacture of workpieces or articles from metallic powder characterised by the manner of compacting or sintering; Apparatus specially adapted therefor ; Presses and furnaces
  • B22F3/002—Manufacture of articles essentially made from metallic fibres
• • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
  • C22—METALLURGY; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS
  • C22C—ALLOYS
  • C22C47/00—Making alloys containing metallic or non-metallic fibres or filaments
  • C22C47/02—Pretreatment of the fibres or filaments
  • C22C47/06—Pretreatment of the fibres or filaments by forming the fibres or filaments into a preformed structure, e.g. using a temporary binder to form a mat-like element
• • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
  • C23—COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; CHEMICAL SURFACE TREATMENT; DIFFUSION TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL; INHIBITING CORROSION OF METALLIC MATERIAL OR INCRUSTATION IN GENERAL
  • C23C—COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; SURFACE TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL BY DIFFUSION INTO THE SURFACE, BY CHEMICAL CONVERSION OR SUBSTITUTION; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL
  • C23C16/00—Chemical coating by decomposition of gaseous compounds, without leaving reaction products of surface material in the coating, i.e. chemical vapour deposition [CVD] processes
  • C23C16/06—Chemical coating by decomposition of gaseous compounds, without leaving reaction products of surface material in the coating, i.e. chemical vapour deposition [CVD] processes characterised by the deposition of metallic material
  • C23C16/08—Chemical coating by decomposition of gaseous compounds, without leaving reaction products of surface material in the coating, i.e. chemical vapour deposition [CVD] processes characterised by the deposition of metallic material from metal halides
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
  • B22F—WORKING METALLIC POWDER; MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES FROM METALLIC POWDER; MAKING METALLIC POWDER; APPARATUS OR DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR METALLIC POWDER
  • B22F2998/00—Supplementary information concerning processes or compositions relating to powder metallurgy
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
  • Y10T29/00—Metal working
  • Y10T29/49—Method of mechanical manufacture
  • Y10T29/49801—Shaping fiber or fibered material

Definitions

• ABSTRACT A process for the manufacture of high-strength materials from metallic polycrystalline filamentary material, e.g. iron, which has been deposited from the gaseous phase, wherein a mass of the filaments is consolidated by deposition of a metal thereon to join and bond the filaments at their points of intersection, whereafter the mass is briefly heated under pressure to produce a diffusion bond between the metal of the filaments and the metal deposited thereon and to compact the mass.
• metallic polycrystalline filamentary material e.g. iron
• the mass may be impregnated with a metal of lower melting point.
• Loose unb onded masses of filaments may be similarly impregnated, particularly if the filaments are given a prior surface treatment to reduce oxidation and so ensure wetting of the filaments by the impregnating metal.
• the impregnating metal forms an alloy with the metal of the filaments, the latter may be provided with one or more intermediate layers of a non-alloying substance.
• the invention is concerned with the .combinationof 5 polycrystalline metal filaments, which are also known as polycrystalline whiskers, by metallurgical measures.
• polycrystalline metal filaments isintendedto mean such metal filaments as originate fromthegaseous phase and which, in the original state, are composed of extremely small a and in most cases submicroscopically fine crystals (see German Patent No. 1,224,934).
• Examples of such polycrystalline metal filaments are iron filaments with a granular size of between 70 and 90 A and a carbon content of between 0.8 and 1.6 percent. These iron filaments are of extraordinary hardness, of between 1,300 kp/sq.mm.
• the present invention uses for the manufacture of high-strength materials polycrystalline fila ments which are produced from the gaseous phase, in other words not-produced from originally compact material. These filaments grow by aggregation of originally free metal atoms into their filament form and, by reason of unusual structure and an extremely high number of dislocations, they have outstandingstrength which exceeds that of conventional metal filaments by more than a power of ten.
• the present invention arises from the relisation that the described polycrystalline filaments of high strength cannot be readily sintered by conventional processes and yield optimum results.
• the strength of sintered products from conventional powders and metal filaments generally depends on the degree of residual porosity and since the inherent strength of the starting material is not greatly affected by the sintering process, the results of the sintered powder metallurgical processing of polycrystalline filaments and the mechanical properties of the materials thereby obtaineddepends to a greatextent upon the duration of the sintering process, in fact to'the opposite extent than with the sinteringof conventional basic materials.
• the object of the invention is therefore to retain the valuable strength properties of the polycrystalline filaments during processing to form porous or compact materials.
• the filaments are firstshaken, riddled or compressed to the desired pore volume,'then aremetallically bonded to one another at their points of intersection or contact and finally the thus consolidated porous mass is briefly heated to such a temperature that a diffusion exhange of atoms occurs between the metallic bonding substance and the fila ments.
• the consolidation porous mass is compressed ruring the brief period of heating.
• the metallicbonding may be effected by passing a stream of carrier gas, charged with a thermally decomposable metal compound in vapour, mist or aerosol-like form, through the porous mass of filaments, the porous mass .beingmaintained at the decomposition temperature of 'the relevant metal compound.
• decomposition temperature is in this case not the temperature of complete thermal decomposition but a temperature at which preferably a maximum of only some threequarters of the weight of metal compound is decomposed.
• the deposition of metals on the fibres gives rise to a metallic bonding or joining of the points of intersection of the filaments.
• the mass of filaments already has aconsiderable mechanical strength.
• the subsequent exposure of the 'metallised porous skeleton to an elevated temperature causes at least one type of atom, either that of the filaments or of the metallic deposition product, to penetrate the boundary layer between thefilament surface and the metal deposit by the onset ofdiffusion.
• EXAMPLE by passing a stream of argon through the gas permeable carbon electrodes, an electric current is fed to it through the electrodes which brings the porous mass of filaments to a temperature of for example 140C by resistance heating, whereupon iron pentacarbonyl vapour is added to the stream of argon. This results in iron being deposited on the polycrystalline iron fialments, bonding the iron filaments into a mechanically rigid skeleton in the manner described.
• this solidified filament skeleton is for a period of a few seconds brought to a temperature of 650C by resistance heating in the same manner as previously but at increased current intensity, and at the same time a strong pressure is exerted from both sides on the heated filament skeleton by the two electrodes, the pressure being between 0.3 and 14 kg/sq.mm. according to the degree of residual porosity required.
• the bonding of the iron filaments using the procedure outlined in the present example can be achieved in the same way by thermal decomposition of nickel tetracarbonyl, molybdenum hexacarbonyl, tungsten carbonyl, dicomenchromium, dibenzolchromium, etc.
• the metallic bonding of the metal filaments is achieved by electro-less deposition of metals, in that one of the known reaction solutions for electro-less deposition, for example a solution for the electro-less deposition of nickel, is passed through the porous mass of filaments at the prescribed working temperature of for example 96C until such time as a sufficient quantity of metal is deposited on the filaments, which is necessary for bonding at their points of intersection. Subsequently, the procedure is as previously described.
• one of the known reaction solutions for electro-less deposition for example a solution for the electro-less deposition of nickel
• the advantage of using electro-less metal deposition for bonding the points of intersection of the filaments resides on the one hand in that metals can be used, the thermally decomposable metal compunds of which are too expensive and therefore uneconomical, and on the other in that the amorphous form in which metals are deposited by the electro-less process permits of a particularly marked approximation of the metal precipitate to the natural surface texture of the metal filaments to that the rapid onset of sintering or fusion of both types of metals at their boundary interface is encouraged. Furthermore, this process is additionally assisted by the known presence of phosphorus as a consequence of the deposition reaction. Finally, the onset of the diffusion bonding is also promoted in that the phosphorus present reduces the melting temperature of the metal deposit, which is directly connected with a more rapid diffusion.
• a porous body made from iron filaments, produced and solidified in this way, can in known manner be impregnated with metals and metal alloys which have a lower melting point than the polycrystalline metal filaments and the metallic bonding substance, an essential condition being that the iron filaments are wetted by the impregnation metal. For this reason, it is advantageous to avoid oxidation on the overall surface of the already solidified metal filament skeleton, for which purpose this latter, after removal of the electrodes, is brought into contact under protective gas, with the appropriate metal melt, which by capillary action fills in the pores in the system.
• synthetic plastics material can be used as the impregnation material by proceeding accordingly.
• the invention resolves the problem of a direct impregnation of loose polycrystalline metal filaments in that these metal filaments already undergo a surface treatment while they are being manufactured, this surface treatment largely preventing a subsequent harmful oxidation, in any event sufficiently not to interfere adversely with the wetting stage of the impregnation process.
• the polycrystalline whiskers are, according to one embodiment of the invention, coated during their manufacture with a thin and only slowly oxidising metal coating to a thickness of 0.3 to 1 m. for example with a coating of nickel, after which they never lose their wettability, even when stored.
• the polycrystalline filaments which, when they are manufactured, initially have a metallically clean surface are wetted with a liquid film, to the exclusion of air, safeguarding them against spontaneous oxidation until the impregnation process takes place, although the liquid used must be one which can be removed immediately prior to or during the impregnation process by complete evaporation.
• a liquid film to the exclusion of air, safeguarding them against spontaneous oxidation until the impregnation process takes place, although the liquid used must be one which can be removed immediately prior to or during the impregnation process by complete evaporation.
• paraffins or so-called vapour phase inhibitors such as dicyclohexyl-aminonitrite or l-nitronaphthalene have proved successful.
• the invention resolves this industrially very important problem by manufacturing the polycrystalline metal filaments so that in the course of their thickness growth, one or more intermediate layers are incorporated which are not capable of alloying with aluminium and its alloys, or at least are only so capable with more difficulty than the basic metal of the polycrystalline metal filament.
• polycrystalline iron filaments are produced so that their natural growth is interrupted on one or more occasions by an oxidation process or by the deposition of another metal such as tungsten or molybdenum or by the deposition of some other metal and subsequent oxidation of this metal.
• Metal filaments produced from iron in this way have in cross-section, where a plurality of the described intermediate layers are present, a structure similar to an onion skin, the surface of the filaments consisting of iron.
• the object of avoiding the consumption of the polycrystalline fibres which come in contact with a molten batch of aluminum and its alloys during the impregnation process is thus achieved because although the outermost surface of the filaments can be consumed as an alloy is formed, the underlying coating of oxide or foreign metal represents an alloy-retarding barrier and all subsequent intermediate coatings of a foreign substance take on this same task one after another.
• the advantages of this embodiment of the invention include the fact that polycrystalline metal filaments with such a structure are suitable both for impregnation of a loose filament association as well as for the impregnation of a metal filament skeleton, in which filaments have been primarily metallically bonded at the points of intersection. in the latter case, it is expedient to establish the bonding of the points of intersection of the metal filaments by metal deposition, incorporatingintermediate layers of foreign substances, as has just been described in the case of the manufacture of polycrystalline metal filaments.
• the metallic impregnation of a mechanically rigid skeleton of bonded non-metal fibers according to the invention has as far as procedural technique is concemed, the decisive advantage that metallisation renders the non-metal filaments wettable while on the other hand the metallic bonding of the non-metallic fil aments at the points of intersection, in the same way as with the pure metal filaments, enables the filament association to withstand the intense mechanical loading forces due to capillary forces without destruction. Even an intentionally intimate packing of the filaments in such a skeleton can therefore be maintained during the impregnation process, while is is known to be extremely difficult to achieve a high proportion of fibers solely by stirring loose fibers or filaments into a metal melt.
• A1 filaments high-rigidity carbon filaments, boron filaments, silicon whiskers and the like into a copper matrix.
• a process for the manufacture of high-strength materials from polycrystalline iron metal whiskers and filaments comprising:
• said aforementioned metal depositing step being carried out by thermally decomposing iron pentacarbonyl metal compound in the vapor state to form decomposed iron metal which adheres mechanically to the skeleton of iron filaments and is next to the same type of atoms for diffusing;
• a process for the manufacture of high-strength materials from polycrystalline iron metal whiskers and filaments comprising:
• said aforementioned metal depositing step being carried out by depositing nickel to a coating thickness of from 0.3 to l millimicrons from a solution used for the electroless deposition of nickel under conditions of elevated temperature of about 96C for a time which is sufficient in order to provide said metal thickness;

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