Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a method for preparing a CuW/CuCr composite material by high-entropy alloy infiltration, which solves the problem that the service life of a capacitor bank switch is short due to low interface bonding strength of the CuW/CuCr composite material under an extra-high voltage service condition in the prior art.
The technical scheme adopted by the invention is that the method for preparing the CuW/CuCr composite material by high-entropy alloy infiltration is implemented according to the following steps:
step 1, weighing the following raw materials in atomic percentage:
5-25% of Mn, 5-20% of Fe, 5-25% of Cu, 5-35% of Cr and 5-25% of Co, wherein the sum of atomic percentages of the elements is 100%;
step 2, adding the raw materials and the process control agent weighed in the step 1 into a mixer for mixing, uniformly mixing to obtain a mixture, and placing the mixture into a rigid die for pressing to obtain a high-entropy alloy blank;
step 3, processing and flattening the pre-bonded end of the CuW alloy, cleaning the pre-bonded end, drying for later use, cutting out a chromium bronze alloy bar, selecting the cut machined surface as a pre-bonded surface of the CuCr alloy, and drying for later use after cleaning;
step 4, stacking the high-entropy alloy blank, the CuW alloy and the CuCr alloy obtained in the step 2 and the step 3 in a crucible from top to bottom in sequence according to the sequence of the CuW alloy, the high-entropy alloy blank and the CuCr alloy;
and 5, heating the crucible in a sintering furnace, performing solid-phase sintering on the high-entropy alloy, performing liquid-phase connection on the heterogeneous material after the solid-phase sintering is finished, and cooling to obtain the CuW/CuCr composite material.
The invention is also characterized in that:
in the step 1, the granularity of Cu, Cr, Co, Fe and Mn is 50-400 meshes, and the purity is 99.9%.
In the step 2, the process control agent is absolute ethyl alcohol, glycerol, butanediol or stearic acid.
The ratio of the balls to the materials mixed in the step 2 is 10-40:1, and the mixing time is 8-12 h.
The pressing pressure in the step 2 is 100-400Mpa, the pressure maintaining time is 30-60s, and the height of the high-entropy alloy blank is 0.5-3 mm.
And 3, arranging a groove matched with the high-entropy alloy blank at the pre-bonding end part of the CuW alloy.
And 3, cleaning the CuW alloy and the CuCr alloy by using a KQ-50DE type numerical control ultrasonic cleaner at the cleaning temperature of 15-25 ℃, firstly cleaning for 15-30 minutes by using an acetone cleaning agent, and then cleaning for 15-30 minutes by using an alcohol cleaning agent.
In the step 5, the heating rate of the solid phase sintering is 5-30 ℃/min, the temperature of the solid phase sintering is 600-1000 ℃, and the heat preservation time is 1-4 h.
And (5) after the solid phase sintering is finished, heating at a heating rate of 5-30 ℃/min, performing liquid phase connection at the temperature of 1100-1400 ℃, keeping the temperature for 0.5-4h, cooling to 800-1000 ℃ at a cooling rate of 5-30 ℃/min, and then cooling to room temperature along with the furnace.
The invention has the beneficial effects that: according to the method for preparing the CuW/CuCr composite material by high-entropy alloy infiltration, the connection between the CuW and the CuCr of the heterogeneous material is realized by introducing the high-entropy alloy with five components, the high-entropy effect of the high-entropy alloy can inhibit the formation of a brittle intermetallic compound phase at an interface, the formation of a simple body-centered cubic or face-centered cubic solid solution at the interface is promoted, and the interface bonding strength is improved. The hardness and the conductivity of the CuCr side of the CuW/CuCr composite material prepared by the method at a position 4mm away from the interface reach 95HB and 64IACS respectively, and meanwhile, the high-entropy alloy has wide component range, good connection adaptability to CuW alloys of different grades, simple process and low cost, and is suitable for mass production.
Detailed Description
The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments.
The invention discloses a method for preparing a CuW/CuCr composite material by high-entropy alloy infiltration, which is implemented according to the following steps as shown in figure 1:
step 1, weighing the following raw materials in atomic percentage:
5-25% of Mn, 5-20% of Fe, 5-25% of Cu, 5-35% of Cr and 5-25% of Co, wherein the sum of atomic percentages of the elements is 100%;
wherein the granularity of Cu, Cr, Co, Fe and Mn is 50-400 meshes, and the purity is 99.9%;
step 2, adding the raw materials and the process control agent weighed in the step 1 into a mixer for mixing, wherein the ball-material ratio for mixing is 10-40:1, the mixing time is 8-12h, the mixture is obtained after uniform mixing, the mixture is placed into a rigid die for pressing to obtain a high-entropy alloy blank, the pressing pressure is 100-400MPa, the pressure maintaining time is 30-60s, and the height of the high-entropy alloy blank is 0.5-3 mm;
the process control agent is absolute ethyl alcohol, glycerol, butanediol or stearic acid;
step 3, processing and flattening the pre-bonded end of the CuW alloy, cleaning the pre-bonded end, drying for later use, cutting out a chromium bronze alloy bar, selecting the cut-out processing surface as a pre-bonded surface of the CuCr alloy, and drying for later use after cleaning;
the pre-combination end part of the CuW alloy is provided with a groove matched with the high-entropy alloy blank;
cleaning CuW alloy and CuCr alloy by using a KQ-50DE type numerical control ultrasonic cleaner at 15-25 ℃, firstly cleaning for 15-30 minutes by using an acetone cleaning agent, and then cleaning for 15-30 minutes by using an alcohol cleaning agent;
step 4, stacking the high-entropy alloy blank, the CuW alloy and the CuCr alloy obtained in the step 2 and the step 3 in a crucible from top to bottom in sequence according to the sequence of the CuW alloy, the high-entropy alloy blank and the CuCr alloy, and embedding the high-entropy alloy blank into a groove at the pre-combined end part of the CuW alloy;
and step 5, placing the crucible in a sintering furnace for heating at a heating rate of 5-30 ℃/min, performing solid-phase sintering on the high-entropy alloy, wherein the temperature of the solid-phase sintering is 600-fold glass-ceramic composite material, the heat preservation time is 1-4h, after the solid-phase sintering is finished, heating at a heating rate of 5-30 ℃/min, performing liquid-phase connection at a temperature of 1100-fold glass-ceramic composite material.
The invention realizes the connection between the heterogeneous materials CuW and CuCr by introducing the multi-component high-entropy alloy, the high-entropy effect of the high-entropy alloy can inhibit the formation of brittle intermetallic compound phases at the interface, promote the interface to form simple body-centered cubic or face-centered cubic solid solution, improve the interface bonding strength, and simultaneously the high-temperature softening resistance of the high-entropy alloy can also prevent the interface from softening at high temperature under the influence of larger arc heat.
The selected alloy elements Fe, Mn, Cu, Cr and Co are the main original two points of the composition of the high-entropy alloy: the five elements of Fe, Mn, Cu, Cr and Co are in the subgroup of the fourth period in the periodic table, and the five elements are adjacent in position, close in atomic radius and very similar in performance. Secondly, the five elements have certain solid solubility in W and Cu, so that firm metallurgical bonding can be formed; the multi-principal-element characteristic of the high-entropy alloy can avoid excessive erosion caused by adding of a single element to a W framework to reduce interface bonding strength, and the high-entropy effect can inhibit an interface from generating a hard and brittle intermetallic compound due to adding of an alloy element, so that the interface is formed in the form of W, Cu two-phase solid solution, the interface bonding mode of the whole material prepared by the conventional method is changed, and the synergistic effect of multiple elements is fully exerted.
The high-entropy alloy is embedded in the CuW pre-combination end groove which is matched with the high-entropy alloy, so that the loss of the high-entropy alloy pressed compact in the liquid phase connection process can be reduced, and the contact reaction between the high-entropy alloy pressed compact and a crucible in the liquid phase connection process is prevented.
The CuCr alloy is a chromium bronze bar with low Cr content, so that the whole material has good conductivity.
According to the invention, solid-phase sintering of the high-entropy alloy blank is carried out in the same sintering furnace according to a time sequence, and then heterogeneous materials are connected. In addition, the solid-phase sintering is beneficial to improving the compactness of the high-entropy alloy blank and reducing the probability of generating defects such as holes. On the other hand, the solid phase sintering process is also a heterogeneous material liquid phase connection preheating process, which is beneficial to improving the production efficiency and saving the production cost.
Example 1
A method for preparing a CuW/CuCr composite material by high-entropy alloy infiltration is implemented according to the following steps:
step 1, weighing the following raw materials in atomic percentage:
25% of Mn, 20% of Fe, 20% of Cu, 10% of Cr and 25% of Co, wherein the sum of atomic percentages of the above elements is 100%;
wherein the granularity of Cu, Cr, Co, Fe and Mn is 300 meshes, and the purity is 99.9%;
step 2, adding the raw materials weighed in the step 1 and absolute ethyl alcohol into a mixer for mixing, wherein the ball-material ratio for mixing is 10:1, the mixing time is 8 hours, the mixture is obtained after uniform mixing, the mixture is placed into a rigid die for pressing to obtain a high-entropy alloy blank, the pressing pressure is 400MPa, the pressure maintaining time is 30s, and the height of the high-entropy alloy blank is 2 mm;
step 3, processing and flattening the pre-bonded end of the CuW alloy, cleaning the pre-bonded end, drying for later use, cutting out a chromium bronze alloy bar, selecting the cut machined surface as a pre-bonded surface of the CuCr alloy, and drying for later use after cleaning;
the pre-combination end part of the CuW alloy is provided with a groove matched with the high-entropy alloy blank;
cleaning the CuW alloy and the CuCr alloy by using a KQ-50DE type numerical control ultrasonic cleaner at the cleaning temperature of 15 ℃, firstly cleaning for 15 minutes by using an acetone cleaning agent, and then cleaning for 15 minutes by using an alcohol cleaning agent;
step 4, stacking the high-entropy alloy blank, the CuW alloy and the CuCr alloy obtained in the step 2 and the step 3 in a crucible from top to bottom in sequence according to the sequence of the CuW alloy, the high-entropy alloy blank and the CuCr alloy, and embedding the high-entropy alloy blank into a groove at the pre-combined end part of the CuW alloy;
and 5, placing the crucible in a sintering furnace for heating at a heating rate of 30 ℃/min, performing solid-phase sintering on the high-entropy alloy, wherein the temperature of the solid-phase sintering is 1000 ℃, the heat preservation time is 2h, after the solid-phase sintering is finished, heating at a heating rate of 30 ℃/min, performing liquid-phase connection at 1400 ℃, the heat preservation time is 0.5h, then cooling to 1000 ℃ at a cooling rate of 30 ℃/min, and then cooling to room temperature along with the furnace, thus obtaining the CuW/CuCr composite material.
Example 2
A method for preparing a CuW/CuCr composite material by high-entropy alloy infiltration is implemented according to the following steps:
step 1, weighing the following raw materials in atomic percentage:
20% of Mn, 20% of Fe, 20% of Cu, 20% of Cr and 20% of Co, wherein the sum of atomic percentages of the above elements is 100%;
wherein the granularity of Cu, Cr, Co, Fe and Mn is 300 meshes, and the purity is 99.9%;
step 2, adding the raw materials weighed in the step 1 and absolute ethyl alcohol into a mixer for mixing, wherein the ball-material ratio for mixing is 30:1, the mixing time is 12 hours, the mixture is obtained after uniform mixing, the mixture is placed into a rigid die for pressing to obtain a high-entropy alloy blank, the pressing pressure is 400MPa, the pressure maintaining time is 30s, and the height of the high-entropy alloy blank is 0.5 mm;
step 3, processing and flattening the pre-bonded end of the CuW alloy, cleaning the pre-bonded end, drying for later use, cutting out a chromium bronze alloy bar, selecting the cut machined surface as a pre-bonded surface of the CuCr alloy, and drying for later use after cleaning;
the pre-bonding end part of the CuW alloy is provided with a groove matched with the high-entropy alloy blank;
cleaning the CuW alloy and the CuCr alloy by using a KQ-50DE type numerical control ultrasonic cleaner at the cleaning temperature of 17 ℃, firstly cleaning for 20 minutes by using an acetone cleaning agent, and then cleaning for 20 minutes by using an alcohol cleaning agent; step 4, stacking the high-entropy alloy blank, the CuW alloy and the CuCr alloy obtained in the step 2 and the step 3 in a crucible from top to bottom in sequence according to the sequence of the CuW alloy, the high-entropy alloy blank and the CuCr alloy, and embedding the high-entropy alloy blank into a groove at the pre-combined end part of the CuW alloy;
and 5, placing the crucible in a sintering furnace for heating at a heating rate of 20 ℃/min, performing solid-phase sintering on the high-entropy alloy, wherein the temperature of the solid-phase sintering is 950 ℃, the heat preservation time is 1.5h, after the solid-phase sintering is finished, heating at a heating rate of 20 ℃/min, performing liquid-phase connection at 1200 ℃, the heat preservation time is 2h, then cooling to 950 ℃ at a cooling rate of 20 ℃/min, and then cooling to room temperature along with the furnace, thus obtaining the CuW/CuCr composite material.
Example 3
A method for preparing a CuW/CuCr composite material by high-entropy alloy infiltration is implemented according to the following steps
Step 1, weighing the following raw materials in atomic percentage:
15 percent of Mn, 15 percent of Fe, 5 to 25 percent of Cu, 25 percent of Cr and 25 percent of Co, wherein the sum of the atomic percentages of the above elements is 100 percent;
wherein the granularity of Cu, Cr, Co, Fe and Mn is 200 meshes, and the purity is 99.9%;
step 2, adding the raw materials weighed in the step 1 and glycerol into a mixer for mixing, wherein the ball-material ratio for mixing is 20:1, the mixing time is 8 hours, the mixture is obtained after uniform mixing, the mixture is placed into a rigid die for pressing to obtain a high-entropy alloy blank, the pressing pressure is 100Mpa, the pressure maintaining time is 60s, and the height of the high-entropy alloy blank is 2 mm;
step 3, processing and flattening the pre-bonded end of the CuW alloy, cleaning the pre-bonded end, drying for later use, cutting out a chromium bronze alloy bar, selecting the cut machined surface as a pre-bonded surface of the CuCr alloy, and drying for later use after cleaning;
the pre-bonding end part of the CuW alloy is provided with a groove matched with the high-entropy alloy blank;
cleaning the CuW alloy and the CuCr alloy by using a KQ-50DE type numerical control ultrasonic cleaner at the cleaning temperature of 20 ℃, firstly cleaning for 25 minutes by using an acetone cleaning agent, and then cleaning for 25 minutes by using an alcohol cleaning agent;
step 4, stacking the high-entropy alloy blank, the CuW alloy and the CuCr alloy obtained in the step 2 and the step 3 in a crucible from top to bottom in sequence according to the sequence of the CuW alloy, the high-entropy alloy blank and the CuCr alloy, and embedding the high-entropy alloy blank into a groove at the pre-combined end part of the CuW alloy;
and 5, placing the crucible in a sintering furnace for heating at a heating rate of 5 ℃/min, performing solid-phase sintering on the high-entropy alloy, wherein the temperature of the solid-phase sintering is 600 ℃, the heat preservation time is 3h, after the solid-phase sintering is finished, heating at a heating rate of 5 ℃/min, performing liquid-phase connection at 1100 ℃, the heat preservation time is 3h, then cooling to 800 ℃ at a cooling rate of 5 ℃/min, and then cooling to room temperature along with the furnace, thus obtaining the CuW/CuCr composite material.
Example 4
The invention discloses a method for preparing a CuW/CuCr composite material by high-entropy alloy infiltration, which is implemented according to the following steps as shown in figure 1:
step 1, weighing the following raw materials in atomic percentage:
20% of Mn, 20% of Fe, 20% of Cu, 20% of Cr and 20% of Co, wherein the sum of atomic percentages of the elements is 100%;
wherein the granularity of Cu, Cr, Co, Fe and Mn is 300 meshes, and the purity is 99.9%;
step 2, adding the raw materials weighed in the step 1 and butanediol into a mixer for mixing, wherein the ball-material ratio for mixing is 40:1, the mixing time is 12 hours, uniformly mixing to obtain a mixture, placing the mixture into a rigid die for pressing to obtain a high-entropy alloy blank, the pressing pressure is 400Mpa, the pressure maintaining time is 60s, and the height of the high-entropy alloy blank is 1 mm;
step 3, processing and flattening the pre-bonded end of the CuW alloy, cleaning the pre-bonded end, drying for later use, cutting out a chromium bronze alloy bar, selecting the cut machined surface as a pre-bonded surface of the CuCr alloy, and drying for later use after cleaning;
the pre-bonding end part of the CuW alloy is provided with a groove matched with the high-entropy alloy blank;
cleaning the CuW alloy and the CuCr alloy by using a KQ-50DE type numerical control ultrasonic cleaner at the cleaning temperature of 25 ℃, firstly cleaning for 30 minutes by using an acetone cleaning agent, and then cleaning for 30 minutes by using an alcohol cleaning agent;
step 4, stacking the high-entropy alloy blank, the CuW alloy and the CuCr alloy obtained in the step 2 and the step 3 in a crucible from top to bottom in sequence according to the sequence of the CuW alloy, the high-entropy alloy blank and the CuCr alloy, and embedding the high-entropy alloy blank into a groove at the pre-combined end part of the CuW alloy;
and 5, placing the crucible in a sintering furnace for heating at a heating rate of 15 ℃/min, performing solid-phase sintering on the high-entropy alloy, wherein the temperature of the solid-phase sintering is 850 ℃, the heat preservation time is 1h, after the solid-phase sintering is finished, heating at a heating rate of 15 ℃/min, performing liquid-phase connection at 1300 ℃, the heat preservation time is 1h, then cooling to 850 ℃ at a cooling rate of 15 ℃/min, and then cooling to room temperature along with the furnace, thus obtaining the CuW/CuCr composite material.
FIG. 2 is a graph of the hardness of the composite material of the present invention with different manganese contents at a distance of 4mm from the CuCr side to the interface; as can be seen from FIG. 2, with the increase of Mn content in the high-entropy alloy, the hardness of the CuCr side 4mm away from the interface is reduced, so that the proper Mn content is beneficial to connecting the whole material; FIG. 3 is an SEM image of a joint surface of the CuW/CuCr composite material prepared in example 2 of the invention, and it can be seen from FIG. 3 that the CuW/CuCr composite material containing the CuCrCoFeMn high-entropy alloy interlayer in the joint surface region has good interface bonding and no hole cracks or other defects affecting the interface bonding strength; fig. 4 is a line scan diagram of the bonding interface of the CuW/CuCr composite material prepared in example 4 of the present invention, and it can be seen from fig. 4 that both the high-entropy alloy interlayers can be fully dissolved and diffused into the heterogeneous materials on both sides of the interface, the high-entropy alloy interlayers have good fusion property with the heterogeneous materials on both sides of the interface, no unmelted material remains on the interface, and metallurgical diffusion and dissolution occur on the CuW/CuCr interface, so that the two phases of Cu and W that are originally immiscible with each other generate metallurgical bonding at the Cu/W phase interface.