Disclosure of Invention
The technical problem to be solved by the invention is to overcome the existing Ti3SiC2The defects and defects of low toughness, hardness and abrasion loss of the ceramic are overcome, and the high-toughness high-hardness abrasion-resistant ceramic and the preparation method thereof are provided. It has high hardness, high bending strength and low wear rate.
The invention aims to provide a preparation method of high-toughness high-hardness wear-resistant ceramic. TiC powder, Mo powder, Sm powder, Ti powder and Si powder are proportioned according to a certain proportion and then ball-milled; after ball milling, adding carbon fiber and SiC whisker, continuing ball milling, and vacuumizing the ball-milled slurry and then heating and drying the ball-milled slurry; and then adding polyvinyl alcohol for granulation, preforming the granulated powder through a tablet machine, then pressing under 30-40 MPa to prepare a blank, removing glue for 2-4 h at 600-800 ℃ in a muffle furnace, then sintering for 1-5 h at 1500-1700 ℃, and cooling to room temperature along with the furnace to obtain the ceramic.
The invention also aims to provide the high-toughness high-hardness wear-resistant ceramic.
The above purpose of the invention is realized by the following technical scheme:
a preparation method of high-toughness high-hardness wear-resistant ceramic comprises the following steps:
(1) TiC powder, Mo powder, Sm powder, Ti powder and Si powder with the purity of more than 99.5 percent are mixed according to the mol ratio of 2: x: y: 1-x-y: 1.2, weighing, wherein x is 0.05-0.15; y is 0.05-0.15, then putting the weighed raw materials into a ball milling tank, adding silicon nitride grinding balls, taking absolute ethyl alcohol as a ball milling medium, vacuumizing, filling inert gas, and then opening the ball milling machine for ball milling treatment;
(2) adding 2-4 wt% of carbon fiber and 2-4 wt% of SiC whisker into the ball milling tank, and continuing ball milling treatment;
(3) vacuumizing the ball-milled slurry, and then heating and drying the slurry;
(4) and then adding a polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) aqueous solution with the mass fraction of 5% for granulation, preforming the granulated powder by a tablet machine, pressing the preformed powder under the pressure of 30 MPa-40 MPa to prepare a blank, discharging the glue of the obtained blank in a muffle furnace at the temperature of 600-800 ℃ for 2-4 h, then sintering the blank at the temperature of 1500-1700 ℃ for 1-5 h, and cooling the blank to room temperature along with the furnace to obtain the ceramic.
Preferably, in the step (1), Φ of the silicon nitride grinding ball is 4-6 mm, and the ball-to-material ratio is controlled to be (5-9): 1, the addition amount of the absolute ethyl alcohol is 15-25% of the mass of the raw material powder; the ball milling rotating speed is 300-400 r/min, and the ball milling processing time is 6-14 h; the inert gas is helium or argon.
Preferably, in the step (2), the length-diameter ratio of the carbon fiber is 20-40: 1; the length-diameter ratio of the SiC whiskers is 10-30: 1; the ball milling rotating speed is 200-400 r/min, and the ball milling processing time is 6-14 h.
Preferably, in the step (3), after vacuumizing, the air pressure is reduced to less than 0.1MPa, and then drying treatment is carried out at 60-80 ℃.
Preferably, in the step (4), the heating rate in the glue discharging process is 4-6 ℃/min, and the heating rate in the sintering process at 1500-1700 ℃ for 1-5 h is 7-9 ℃/min.
The high-toughness and high-hardness wear-resistant ceramic is prepared by the preparation method of the high-toughness and high-hardness wear-resistant ceramic.
Preferably, the high-toughness and high-hardness wear-resistant ceramic has the hardness Hv of 15.3-16.4 GPa, the bending strength of 450-460 MPa and the wear rate of 3.1 multiplied by 10-5~3.5×10-5。
The invention has the following beneficial effects:
1) a method for preparing high-toughness high-hardness wear-resistant ceramic.TiC powder, Mo powder, Sm powder, Ti powder and Si powder are proportioned according to a certain proportion and then ball-milled; after ball milling, adding carbon fibers and SiC whiskers, continuing ball milling, granulating, pressing into a blank, discharging the glue of the obtained blank in a muffle furnace, and sintering to obtain the ceramic, wherein the ceramic prepared by the method has the hardness Hv of 15.3-16.4 GPa, the bending strength of 450-460 MPa, and the wear rate of 3.1 multiplied by 10-5~3.5×10-5。
2) Doping Mo and Sm into Ti3SiC2In crystal lattice, and the synergistic effect between two elements promotes Ti3SiC2The hardness and the bending strength of the ceramic material are obviously improved, and the ceramic material has lower wear rate.
3) The strength and toughness of the ceramic material can be obviously improved by adding the carbon fibers and the SiC whiskers, so that the comprehensive performance of the ceramic material is improved, and the carbon fibers and the SiC whiskers are unexpectedly found to have a synergistic effect in the aspect of enhancing the strength and toughness.
4) The polyvinyl alcohol is added for compression molding, and the glue is arranged for treatment, so that the ceramic material has good sintering characteristics, the porosity of the ceramic material is obviously reduced, the compactness is improved, and the hardness and the bending strength are further improved.
In conclusion, the high-toughness high-hardness wear-resistant ceramic prepared by the invention is an ideal material for practical production due to higher hardness, bending strength and lower wear rate.
Detailed Description
The present invention is further illustrated by the following specific examples, which are not intended to limit the invention in any way. Reagents, methods and apparatus used in the present invention are conventional in the art unless otherwise indicated.
Unless otherwise indicated, reagents and materials used in the following examples are commercially available.
Example 1
A preparation method of high-toughness high-hardness wear-resistant ceramic comprises the following steps:
(1) TiC powder, Mo powder, Sm powder, Ti powder and Si powder with the purity of more than 99.5 percent are mixed according to the mol ratio of 2: 0.1: 0.1: 0.8: 1.2, weighing, then putting the weighed raw materials into a ball milling tank, adding silicon nitride grinding balls (phi is 5mm), taking absolute ethyl alcohol as a ball milling medium, vacuumizing, filling helium gas, and then opening the ball milling machine for ball milling treatment; wherein, the ball-to-feed ratio is controlled to be 7: 1, the addition of absolute ethyl alcohol is 20 percent of the mass of the raw material powder; the ball milling rotation speed is 350r/min, and the ball milling processing time is 10 h;
(2) adding 3 wt% of carbon fiber (the length of which is 60 μm and the diameter of which is 2 μm) and 3 wt% of SiC whisker (the length of which is 60 μm and the diameter of which is 3 μm) into the ball milling tank, and continuing ball milling treatment; the ball milling rotation speed is 300r/min, and the ball milling processing time is 10 hours;
(3) vacuumizing the ball-milled slurry, reducing the air pressure to be less than 0.1MPa, and then drying at 70 ℃;
(4) and then adding a polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) aqueous solution with the mass fraction of 5% for granulation, preforming the granulated powder by a tablet machine, pressing the preformed powder under 35MPa to prepare a blank, heating the obtained blank from room temperature to 700 ℃ at the heating rate of 5 ℃/min in a muffle furnace, discharging glue for 3h, heating to 1600 ℃ at the heating rate of 8 ℃/min, sintering for 3h, and furnace-cooling to room temperature to obtain the ceramic.
Example 2
A preparation method of high-toughness high-hardness wear-resistant ceramic comprises the following steps:
(1) TiC powder, Mo powder, Sm powder, Ti powder and Si powder with the purity of more than 99.5 percent are mixed according to the mol ratio of 2: 0.05: 0.15: 0.8: 1.2, weighing, then putting the weighed raw materials into a ball milling tank, adding silicon nitride grinding balls (phi is 6mm), taking absolute ethyl alcohol as a ball milling medium, vacuumizing, filling argon, and then opening the ball mill for ball milling treatment; controlling the ball-material ratio at 9: 1, the addition amount of the absolute ethyl alcohol is 25 percent of the mass of the raw material powder; the ball milling rotation speed is 400r/min, and the ball milling processing time is 6 h;
(2) adding 4 wt% of carbon fiber (the length of which is 80 μm and the diameter of which is 2 μm) and 2 wt% of SiC whisker (the length of which is 30 μm and the diameter of which is 3 μm) into the ball milling tank, and continuing ball milling treatment; the ball milling rotation speed is 400r/min, and the ball milling processing time is 6 h;
(3) vacuumizing the ball-milled slurry, reducing the air pressure to be less than 0.1MPa, and then drying at 80 ℃;
(4) and then adding a polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) aqueous solution with the mass fraction of 5% for granulation, preforming the granulated powder by a tablet machine, pressing the preformed powder under 40MPa to prepare a blank, heating the obtained blank from room temperature to 800 ℃ at the heating rate of 6 ℃/min in a muffle furnace, discharging glue for 2h, heating to 1700 ℃ at the heating rate of 7 ℃/min, sintering for 1h, and furnace-cooling to room temperature to obtain the ceramic.
Example 3
A preparation method of high-toughness high-hardness wear-resistant ceramic comprises the following steps:
(1) TiC powder, Mo powder, Sm powder, Ti powder and Si powder with the purity of more than 99.5 percent are mixed according to the mol ratio of 2: 0.15: 0.05: 0.8: 1.2, weighing, then putting the weighed raw materials into a ball milling tank, adding silicon nitride grinding balls (phi is 4mm), taking absolute ethyl alcohol as a ball milling medium, vacuumizing, charging helium, and then opening the ball mill for ball milling treatment; controlling the ball-material ratio at 5: 1, the addition amount of the absolute ethyl alcohol is 15 percent of the mass of the raw material powder; the ball milling rotation speed is 300r/min, and the ball milling processing time is 14 h;
(2) 2 wt% of carbon fiber (the length of which is 40 μm and the diameter of which is 2 μm) and 4 wt% of SiC whisker (the length of which is 90 μm and the diameter of which is 3 μm) are added into the ball milling tank, and the ball milling treatment is continued; the ball milling rotation speed is 200r/min, and the ball milling processing time is 14 h;
(3) vacuumizing the ball-milled slurry, reducing the air pressure to be less than 0.1MPa, and then drying at 60 ℃;
(4) and then adding a polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) aqueous solution with the mass fraction of 5% for granulation, preforming the granulated powder by a tablet machine, pressing the preformed powder under 30MPa to prepare a blank, heating the obtained blank from room temperature to 600 ℃ at the heating rate of 4 ℃/min in a muffle furnace, discharging glue for 4h, heating to 1500 ℃ at the heating rate of 9 ℃/min, sintering for 5h, and cooling to room temperature along with the furnace to obtain the ceramic.
Comparative example 1
A preparation method of high-toughness high-hardness wear-resistant ceramic comprises the following steps:
(1) TiC powder, Mo powder, Ti powder and Si powder with the purity of more than 99.5 percent are mixed according to the mol ratio of 2: 0.2: 0.8: 1.2, weighing, then putting the weighed raw materials into a ball milling tank, adding silicon nitride grinding balls (phi is 5mm), taking absolute ethyl alcohol as a ball milling medium, vacuumizing, filling helium gas, and then opening the ball milling machine for ball milling treatment; wherein, the ball-to-feed ratio is controlled to be 7: 1, the addition of absolute ethyl alcohol is 20 percent of the mass of the raw material powder; the ball milling rotation speed is 350r/min, and the ball milling processing time is 10 h;
(2) adding 3 wt% of carbon fiber (the length of which is 60 μm and the diameter of which is 2 μm) and 3 wt% of SiC whisker (the length of which is 60 μm and the diameter of which is 3 μm) into the ball milling tank, and continuing ball milling treatment; the ball milling rotation speed is 300r/min, and the ball milling processing time is 10 hours;
(3) vacuumizing the ball-milled slurry, reducing the air pressure to be less than 0.1MPa, and then drying at 70 ℃;
(4) and then adding a polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) aqueous solution with the mass fraction of 5% for granulation, preforming the granulated powder by a tablet machine, pressing the preformed powder under 35MPa to prepare a blank, heating the obtained blank from room temperature to 700 ℃ at the heating rate of 5 ℃/min in a muffle furnace, discharging glue for 3h, heating to 1600 ℃ at the heating rate of 8 ℃/min, sintering for 3h, and furnace-cooling to room temperature to obtain the ceramic.
Comparative example 2
A preparation method of high-toughness high-hardness wear-resistant ceramic comprises the following steps:
(1) TiC powder, Sm powder, Ti powder and Si powder with the purity of more than 99.5 percent are mixed according to the mol ratio of 2: 0.2: 0.8: 1.2, weighing, then putting the weighed raw materials into a ball milling tank, adding silicon nitride grinding balls (phi is 5mm), taking absolute ethyl alcohol as a ball milling medium, vacuumizing, filling helium gas, and then opening the ball milling machine for ball milling treatment; wherein, the ball-to-feed ratio is controlled to be 7: 1, the addition of absolute ethyl alcohol is 20 percent of the mass of the raw material powder; the ball milling rotation speed is 350r/min, and the ball milling processing time is 10 h;
(2) adding 3 wt% of carbon fiber (the length of which is 60 μm and the diameter of which is 2 μm) and 3 wt% of SiC whisker (the length of which is 60 μm and the diameter of which is 3 μm) into the ball milling tank, and continuing ball milling treatment; the ball milling rotation speed is 300r/min, and the ball milling processing time is 10 hours;
(3) vacuumizing the ball-milled slurry, reducing the air pressure to be less than 0.1MPa, and then drying at 70 ℃;
(4) and then adding a polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) aqueous solution with the mass fraction of 5% for granulation, preforming the granulated powder by a tablet machine, pressing the preformed powder under 35MPa to prepare a blank, heating the obtained blank from room temperature to 700 ℃ at the heating rate of 5 ℃/min in a muffle furnace, discharging glue for 3h, heating to 1600 ℃ at the heating rate of 8 ℃/min, sintering for 3h, and furnace-cooling to room temperature to obtain the ceramic.
Comparative example 3
A preparation method of high-toughness high-hardness wear-resistant ceramic comprises the following steps:
(1) TiC powder, Ti powder and Si powder with the purity of more than 99.5 percent are mixed according to the mol ratio of 2: 1: 1.2, weighing, then putting the weighed raw materials into a ball milling tank, adding silicon nitride grinding balls (phi is 5mm), taking absolute ethyl alcohol as a ball milling medium, vacuumizing, filling helium gas, and then opening the ball milling machine for ball milling treatment; wherein, the ball-to-feed ratio is controlled to be 7: 1, the addition of absolute ethyl alcohol is 20 percent of the mass of the raw material powder; the ball milling rotation speed is 350r/min, and the ball milling processing time is 10 h;
(2) adding 3 wt% of carbon fiber (the length of which is 60 μm and the diameter of which is 2 μm) and 3 wt% of SiC whisker (the length of which is 60 μm and the diameter of which is 3 μm) into the ball milling tank, and continuing ball milling treatment; the ball milling rotation speed is 300r/min, and the ball milling processing time is 10 hours;
(3) vacuumizing the ball-milled slurry, reducing the air pressure to be less than 0.1MPa, and then drying at 70 ℃;
(4) and then adding a polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) aqueous solution with the mass fraction of 5% for granulation, preforming the granulated powder by a tablet machine, pressing the preformed powder under 35MPa to prepare a blank, heating the obtained blank from room temperature to 700 ℃ at the heating rate of 5 ℃/min in a muffle furnace, discharging glue for 3h, heating to 1600 ℃ at the heating rate of 8 ℃/min, sintering for 3h, and furnace-cooling to room temperature to obtain the ceramic.
Comparative example 4
A preparation method of high-toughness high-hardness wear-resistant ceramic comprises the following steps:
(1) TiC powder, Mo powder, Sm powder, Ti powder and Si powder with the purity of more than 99.5 percent are mixed according to the mol ratio of 2: 0.1: 0.1: 0.8: 1.2, weighing, then putting the weighed raw materials into a ball milling tank, adding silicon nitride grinding balls (phi is 5mm), taking absolute ethyl alcohol as a ball milling medium, vacuumizing, filling helium gas, and then opening the ball milling machine for ball milling treatment; wherein, the ball-to-feed ratio is controlled to be 7: 1, the addition of absolute ethyl alcohol is 20 percent of the mass of the raw material powder; the ball milling rotation speed is 350r/min, and the ball milling processing time is 10 h;
(2) adding 6 wt% of carbon fiber (the length of the carbon fiber is 60 mu m, the diameter of the carbon fiber is 2 mu m) into the ball milling tank, and continuing ball milling treatment; the ball milling rotation speed is 300r/min, and the ball milling processing time is 10 hours;
(3) vacuumizing the ball-milled slurry, reducing the air pressure to be less than 0.1MPa, and then drying at 70 ℃;
(4) and then adding a polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) aqueous solution with the mass fraction of 5% for granulation, preforming the granulated powder by a tablet machine, pressing the preformed powder under 35MPa to prepare a blank, heating the obtained blank from room temperature to 700 ℃ at the heating rate of 5 ℃/min in a muffle furnace, discharging glue for 3h, heating to 1600 ℃ at the heating rate of 8 ℃/min, sintering for 3h, and furnace-cooling to room temperature to obtain the ceramic.
Comparative example 5
A preparation method of high-toughness high-hardness wear-resistant ceramic comprises the following steps:
(1) TiC powder, Mo powder, Sm powder, Ti powder and Si powder with the purity of more than 99.5 percent are mixed according to the mol ratio of 2: 0.1: 0.1: 0.8: 1.2, weighing, then putting the weighed raw materials into a ball milling tank, adding silicon nitride grinding balls (phi is 5mm), taking absolute ethyl alcohol as a ball milling medium, vacuumizing, filling helium gas, and then opening the ball milling machine for ball milling treatment; wherein, the ball-to-feed ratio is controlled to be 7: 1, the addition of absolute ethyl alcohol is 20 percent of the mass of the raw material powder; the ball milling rotation speed is 350r/min, and the ball milling processing time is 10 h;
(2) adding 6 wt% of SiC whiskers (the length of the SiC whiskers is 60 mu m, and the diameter of the SiC whiskers is 3 mu m) into the ball milling tank, and continuing ball milling treatment; the ball milling rotation speed is 300r/min, and the ball milling processing time is 10 hours;
(3) vacuumizing the ball-milled slurry, reducing the air pressure to be less than 0.1MPa, and then drying at 70 ℃;
(4) and then adding a polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) aqueous solution with the mass fraction of 5% for granulation, preforming the granulated powder by a tablet machine, pressing the preformed powder under 35MPa to prepare a blank, heating the obtained blank from room temperature to 700 ℃ at the heating rate of 5 ℃/min in a muffle furnace, discharging glue for 3h, heating to 1600 ℃ at the heating rate of 8 ℃/min, sintering for 3h, and furnace-cooling to room temperature to obtain the ceramic.
Comparative example 6
A preparation method of high-toughness high-hardness wear-resistant ceramic comprises the following steps:
(1) TiC powder, Mo powder, Sm powder, Ti powder and Si powder with the purity of more than 99.5 percent are mixed according to the mol ratio of 2: 0.1: 0.1: 0.8: 1.2, weighing, then putting the weighed raw materials into a ball milling tank, adding silicon nitride grinding balls (phi is 5mm), taking absolute ethyl alcohol as a ball milling medium, vacuumizing, filling helium gas, and then opening the ball milling machine for ball milling treatment; wherein, the ball-to-feed ratio is controlled to be 7: 1, the addition of absolute ethyl alcohol is 20 percent of the mass of the raw material powder; the ball milling rotation speed is 350r/min, and the ball milling processing time is 10 h;
(2) adding 3 wt% of carbon fiber (the length of which is 60 μm and the diameter of which is 2 μm) and 3 wt% of SiC whisker (the length of which is 60 μm and the diameter of which is 3 μm) into the ball milling tank, and continuing ball milling treatment; the ball milling rotation speed is 300r/min, and the ball milling processing time is 10 hours;
(3) drying the slurry subjected to ball milling at 70 ℃;
(4) and then adding a polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) aqueous solution with the mass fraction of 5% for granulation, preforming the granulated powder by a tablet machine, pressing the preformed powder under 35MPa to prepare a blank, heating the obtained blank from room temperature to 700 ℃ at the heating rate of 5 ℃/min in a muffle furnace, discharging glue for 3h, heating to 1600 ℃ at the heating rate of 8 ℃/min, sintering for 3h, and furnace-cooling to room temperature to obtain the ceramic.
Comparative example 7
A preparation method of high-toughness high-hardness wear-resistant ceramic comprises the following steps:
(1) TiC powder, Mo powder, Sm powder, Ti powder and Si powder with the purity of more than 99.5 percent are mixed according to the mol ratio of 2: 0.1: 0.1: 0.8: 1.2, weighing, then putting the weighed raw materials into a ball milling tank, adding silicon nitride grinding balls (phi is 5mm), taking absolute ethyl alcohol as a ball milling medium, vacuumizing, filling helium gas, and then opening the ball milling machine for ball milling treatment; wherein, the ball-to-feed ratio is controlled to be 7: 1, the addition of absolute ethyl alcohol is 20 percent of the mass of the raw material powder; the ball milling rotation speed is 350r/min, and the ball milling processing time is 10 h;
(2) adding 3 wt% of carbon fiber (the length of which is 60 μm and the diameter of which is 2 μm) and 3 wt% of SiC whisker (the length of which is 60 μm and the diameter of which is 3 μm) into the ball milling tank, and continuing ball milling treatment; the ball milling rotation speed is 300r/min, and the ball milling processing time is 10 hours;
(3) vacuumizing the ball-milled slurry, reducing the air pressure to be less than 0.1MPa, and then drying at 70 ℃;
(4) and then adding a polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) aqueous solution with the mass fraction of 5% for granulation, preforming the granulated powder by a tablet machine, pressing the preformed powder under 35MPa to prepare a blank, heating the obtained blank from room temperature to 700 ℃ at the heating rate of 8 ℃/min in a muffle furnace, discharging glue for 3h, heating to 1600 ℃ at the heating rate of 5 ℃/min, sintering for 3h, and furnace-cooling to room temperature to obtain the ceramic.
Examples 1 to 3 and comparative examples 1 to 7 were subjected to mechanical property and tribological property tests.
Measuring the Vickers hardness of the material by using a microscopic Vickers hardness tester, wherein the load is 10N, the loading time is 5S, and the hardness value is the average value of five times of measurement; the bending strength of the sample is tested by a PT-1036PC type universal material testing machine, the size of the sample is 3mm multiplied by 4mm multiplied by 20mm, the span is 16mm, the loading speed of a pressure head is 0.5mm/min, the bending strength is the average value of three measurement results, and the tribology performance of the sample is tested by a ball disc type friction machine (HT-1000, Kaiki Huakou technology development Co., Ltd., Lanzhou). Specific test results are shown in table 1:
TABLE 1 mechanical and tribological Properties of examples 1-5 and comparative examples 1-3
In conclusion, the high-toughness high-hardness wear-resistant ceramic prepared by the invention is simple in preparation method, and the synergistic effects between Mo and Sm and between carbon fibers and SiC whiskers can be found out through the comparative examples of example 1 and comparative examples 1-7, so that Ti can be remarkably improved3SiC2The hardness and the bending strength are reduced, the wear rate is reduced, the hardness Hv and the bending strength can respectively reach 16.4GPa and 460MPa, and the wear rate is 3.1 multiplied by 10-5。
The above embodiments are preferred embodiments of the present invention, but the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and any other changes, modifications, substitutions, combinations, and simplifications which do not depart from the spirit and principle of the present invention should be construed as equivalents thereof, and all such changes, modifications, substitutions, combinations, and simplifications are intended to be included in the scope of the present invention.