Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Consolidating Mechanism of High Volume Fraction of SiCp/Al Composites by SPS

YANG Mei-Jun, ZHANG Dong-Ming, ZHANG Lian-Meng, GU Xiao-Feng
  

  1. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China

  • Received:2006-07-28 Revised:2006-11-06 Published:2007-07-20 Online:2007-07-20

Abstract: 60vol%SiCp/Al composites with high relative density of 99% were fabricated by spark plasma sintering (SPS). The consolidating mechanism of SiCp/Al composites by SPS was analyzed on two aspects: (1) the adjustment of sintering parameters; (2) the effect of electric field. The results indicate that the consolidating procedure of SiCp/Al composites
by SPS is mainly dependent on the proper adjustment of temperature, pressure and heating-rate which make Al melt and adhere SiC particles without spraying out of the graphite dies; no obvious spark appears during the sintering, which may result from the weak electric field.

Key words: SPS, SiC p/Al composites, sintering parameter, electric field

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