EP0446934B1 - Method of fabricating a composite material - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a method of fabricating a composite material for compounding two materials differing in melting point and not mixing with each other in solid solution, such as W (tungsten) and Cu (copper).
- the composite material shall be suitable for conducting heat.
- the beam target material Since the beam target material is used in rugged condition, it is required to satisfy the following two characteristics: (1) sufficient resistance to heat directly beneath heat source rising in temperature, (2) excellent heat conductivity and cooling characteristic. The second point is needed because the opposite side of the heat source is generally cooled by some means.
- W has thermal expansion factor of 4.5 ⁇ 10 -6 /K
- Cu has that of 17.1 ⁇ 10 -6 /K
- the generated thermal stress is extremely large. Accordingly, when W and Cu are merely brazed and compounded, cracks are likely to be formed in W which has the smaller thermal expansion factor, due to tensile stress when heating, as well as peeling due to thermal stress caused in the interface of W and Cu. Such cracking and peeling will lower the total thermal conductivity, which may lead to temperature rise of materials, or meltdown accident in worst cases.
- gradient material with structure control (hereafter referred to as "gradient material”) by mixing two powders, laminating by varying their mixing ratio, and sintering the laminates.
- This technique is capable of obtaining gradient materials if the melting points of two powders to be mixed are similar to each other, but when extremely different, only one material is molten while the other is not, and it is difficult to fabricate a gradient material with structure control.
- DE-A-2 450 361 discloses sintering a skeleton from metal particles having various sizes in order to obtain the desired gradient of porosity within the skeleton of said first metal.
- a second metal having a lower melting point than that of the first metal is brought in a liquid state and infiltrated into the pores of the skeleton.
- the bonding strength (adhesion) of the interface of two materials and thermal conductivity are superior.
- a gradient composition is made of a three-dimensional surface such as cylinder.
- the continuously changing composition eliminates grain boundary brittleness.
- the obtained bond between the high melting and the lower melting materials can withstand both stationary and nonstationary thermal loads.
- the composite material thus is suitable for use as a heat conductive material.
- Fig. 1 is a process chart for explaining a first embodiment of the fabricating method of composite material of the invention.
- step 1 in order to form W powder in specified shape, it is charged into a pattern (not shown).
- step 2 the W powder obtained at step 1 is formed.
- step 3 the form obtained at step 2 is sintered to form pores, and a sintered W body increased in the porosity toward the infiltrating side (the side where the infiltrated material becomes 100% as a result of infiltration) is obtained.
- Cu is melted in a container (not shown), and it is infiltrated in the pores of the sintered W body obtained at step 3.
- step 5 the material obtained at step 4 is machined and a finally desired product shape is obtained.
- Fig. 5A is a sectional view showing a crucible for melting active metal main body 11 and water-cooled hearth 13
- Fig. 5B is a schematic diagram of fine texture of part A of Fig. 5A.
- the crucible main body 11 side is exposed to high temperature and is hence made of high melting metal W
- the water-cooled hearth 13 is made of Cu which is excellent in thermal conductivity
- the gradient composition region 14 of W and Cu is a so-called gradient composition varying continuously in composition.
- Numeral 12 is a water cooling hole.
- the process is as shown in Fig. 6. That is, at the first step 21, W fine powder is prepared, and it is laminated in the shape of the crucible main body 11 in Fig. 5.
- the laminate obtained in the first step 21 is formed, for example, by CIP (cold isostatic pressing) to produce a W form.
- the W form obtained in the second step 22 is held in H 2 or other reducing high-temperature atmosphere for about several hours to produce a W sinter.
- the sintered W body obtained in the third step 23 is machined to finally finish into a crucible shape. In this case, it is machined including the gradient portion of the interface.
- the density becomes 95% or more at the inside of the crucible main body 11.
- the manufacturing conditions such as material powder, forming pressure, sintering temperature and others are controlled so that the density may change continuously to about 50% at the outside of the crucible main body 11.
- the fifth step 25 Cu is melted by some means, and the sintered W obtained in the third process 23 is infiltrated into this molten bath of W, and after holding until the molten Cu is sufficiently penetrating into the pores of the sintered W, it is cooled.
- the fifth process 25 is conducted in reducing high temperature atmosphere of H 2 or the like, and in the sixth process 26, after sufficiently cooling, it is taken out into the atmosphere, and is machined to the specified dimensions of the crucible main body 11 and water-cooled hearth 13.
- the crucible made of such composite metal material manufactured in such fabricating method (Fig. 5) is wide in the contact area of the gradient composition region 14 with W and Cu, and hence the adhesion and thermal conductivity are excellent. Moreover, since the composition of the gradient composition region 14 is gradient, it is effective to reduce the peak value of the thermal stress caused when heating due to the difference in the coefficient of thermal expansion between W and Cu.
- the crucible of the embodiment is characteristic in that a sintered W crucible continuously varying in the porosity at the outside of the crucible main body 11 is fabricated.
- the effect of the material powder on the density of sintered body as shown in Fig. 7 by varying the powder particle size within a range of 1 ⁇ m to 10 ⁇ m, it is possible to fabricate a W sinter possessing the relative density of 60% to 95%.
- the sintered W crucible varying continuously in density from 95% to 60% can be manufactured.
- the effect is not so great as to change the powder particle size, it is also a method to vary the forming pressure and sintering temperature for changing the density of the sinter, and by combining them, it is possible to fabricate the sintered W crucible main body 11 more effectively.
- the molten Cu is very likely on a solid W to wet, and it penetrates into the closed pores in the sintered W body. Since the boundary of the closed pores and open pores of the sintered W body is about 90%, the majority is infiltrated into the low density area of the outside of the sintered W crucible main body 11. Therefore, since the density of the outside of the sintered W crucible main body 11 changes continuously, a crucible of gradient composition of W and Cu is completed in this way.
- the interface composition of W and Cu is gradient, and the contact area of W and Cu is increased, so that the following effects are brought about.
- the second embodiment relates to an active metal melting crucible or heat receiving plate, but it may be also applied in other high temperature devices that require the combination of W and Cu.
- the combination of W and Cu is presented, but it is not limitative, and it may be applied to any other two materials as far as they differ in melting point and are not mutually miscible in solid solution.
- the mechanical strength is not fully satisfactory because it requires a step of manufacturing a sintered W body having a porosity distribution in the plate thicknesswise direction, and a step of sintering and infiltrating of molten Cu into pores of the sintered W body. That is, since the W which is responsible for mechanical strength undergoes a step of sintering, the grain boundary is particularly weak in the recrystallized grains.
- this sintered W body is required to have a porosity distribution in the plate thicknesswise direction, hot forging cannot be applied as the post-processing for enhancing the mechanical strength. Therefore, even if the thermal stress is alleviated by sloping the composition at the interface of W and Cu, since the mechanical strength is low, cracks may be formed in the W.
- the solid solution composition in order to enhance the mechanical strength of the first embodiment, in a combination of two materials of single composition such as W/Cu gradient material, by adding a second element which is miscible in solid solution, for example, powder of Re (rhenium), Ta (tantalum), Nb (niobium) or Hf (hafnium), the solid solution composition is sloped, so that only the mechanical strength is enhanced while holding the same functions.
- a second element which is miscible in solid solution for example, powder of Re (rhenium), Ta (tantalum), Nb (niobium) or Hf (hafnium
- Re powder is added to the W powder differing in particle size.
- the laminate laminated in the second step 32 is formed by die press forming or CIP forming method.
- the form obtained in the third step 33 is sintered, and the solid-solution element is alloyed with W, thereby obtaining a W alloy sintered body having a porosity distribution in the plate thicknesswise direction (W-HIP material in Fig. 9).
- the W alloy sintered body obtained in the fourth step 34 is impregnated in molten Cu and Cu is infiltrated in pores, and it is cooled.
- the infiltrated material obtained in the fifth step 35 is machined and finished to a desired product shape.
- the fourth embodiment is, similar to the third embodiment, a fabricating method of composite material enhanced only in the mechanical strength, while maintaining the functions, in which, in order to enhance the mechanical strength of the first embodiment, in a combination of two materials of single composition such as W/Cu gradient material, a second element or compound not miscible in solid solution, such as ThO 2 (thoria) powder is added, and the dispersion is intensified to slope the composition.
- a second element or compound not miscible in solid solution such as ThO 2 (thoria) powder
- the four embodiment is same as the third embodiment except that, as shown in the process chart in Fig. 8, ThO 2 powder is added to the W powder differing in particle size in the first step 31.
- the materials obtained by the third and fourth embodiments feature the following points.
- ThO 2 is used as the dispersion reinforcing agent, but basically any other material may be used as far as it is stable chemically and high in melting point, and any of the dispersion reinforcing agents shown in Fig. 10, that is, TaB 2 , TiB 2 , HfB 2 , Y 2 O 3 , ZrO 2 , may be used.
- peeling at the interface of W and Cu and cracks in material may be eliminated, and finally rise of material temperature and melting accident derived from the increase of thermal stress due to peeling or cracking may be eradicated.
- Fig. 11A, Fig. 11B relate to an example of application of the composite material obtained in the third embodiment in the beam target for active metal melting crucible or the like, in which Fig. 11A is a schematic diagram of a target for electron beam (EB), and Fig. 11B is a sectional view showing the section cut in the direction of the arrow along the line A-A in Fig. 11A. Since the C side of the beam target 121 is exposed to the EB 116 and high in temperature, it is made of W alloy of high melting point and high strength.
- EB target for electron beam
- the D side on the opposite side of the beam target 121 is made of Cu which is excellent in thermal conductivity and machinability, and it is cooled in water with water cooling pipe 117. Between the C side and D side, the composition ratio of W alloy and Cu changes continuously, that is, the so-called gradient composition is made.
- the composite material used in Fig. 11A, Fig. 11B is manufactured in the following procedure.
- the W alloy sintered body 118 is fabricated same as shown in Fig. 8, from the first to the fourth steps.
- the low porosity side is set at the upper side, and the build-up part of Cu is disposed at the opposite side.
- the water-cooling pipe 117 is brazed by using Ag-Cu solder or the like, thereby completing the beam target 121.
- the W alloy and Cu are in gradient composition, and the Cu of excellent thermal conductivity is in network structure, and therefore the temperature reached during use may be lowered, and the thermal stress may be alleviated.
- Fig. 13 shows the result of analysis of temperature distribution and thermal stress (principal stress) distribution when the electron beam target shown in Fig. 11 is exposed to electron beam.
- Fig. 13A and Fig. 13C are to compare the result of analysis by finite element method of temperature distribution when heated by linear EB of 5 kW/cm 2 each, between the W alloy/Cu gradient material, and W alloy/Cu brazed material.
- Fig. 13B and Fig. 13D are to compare the thermal tress distribution when heated by linear EB of 5 kW/cm 2 each by the same finite element method, between the W alloy/Cu gradient material and W alloy/Cu brazed material. It is known from the result that the maximum reaching temperature may be lowered by about 80 K by composing gradient material. Besides immediately, beneath the EB where the temperature gradient is the greatest, the maximum thermal stress is known to be reduced to about 1/3.
- Fig. 14 shows the EB input heat density, generated maximum thermal stress, and maximum reaching temperature as analyzed by finite element method.
- the maximum thermal stress is generated in the W alloy layer immediately beneath the heat source, and since the degree of lowering of strength of each part does not seem to be so great owing to compounding with Cu, the breakdown of beam target 121 is considered to be induced when the stress generated in the alloy layer becomes larger than its strength.
- Figs. 13A to 13D are central lines of distribution diagrams. Only right half of each distribution diagram is, hence, illustrated, since the left half if symmetrical to the right half.
- the strength is about 0.4 GPa, and the maximum applicable input heat density is about 4 kW/cm 2 at most, but in the case of W-5Re alloy adding 5% Re, the strength is increased about twice to 0.8 GPa, so that an EB input of about 8 kW/cm 2 is possible.
- the input heat density is 9 kW/cm 2 the maximum reaching temperature exceeds the melting point of W alloy, and it is meaningless if the Re content is increased to raise the strength, which is the application limit for the beam target 121.
- the beam target 121 especially linear EB heating, is mentioned, but it may be also applied to all other high temperature equipment parts requiring heat resistance and thermal conductivity, and the beam form is not limited to EB, but it may be applied to all heat sources.
- a fifth embodiment is described below by reference to Figs. 15, 16.
- the fabricating method of the fifth embodiment comprises the first step 41 through fourth step 44.
- a high strength substrate 45 is prepared by rolling, forging or other plastic processing.
- the high strength substrate 45 fabricated in the first step 41 is sprayed by a known vacuum plasma spraying apparatus as mentioned below, On the heating surface in the case of EB irradiated beam target, or a material producing a large stress locally, and the sprayed film with gradient porosity is made of two materials.
- the material obtained in the second step 42 is applied to a capsule-free HIP (hot isostatic pressing) device to remove the closed pores (defects) which may initiate breakdown.
- a composite material having a gradient composition layer 46 is completed as shown in Fig. 16.
- VPS vacuum plasma spraying
- the capsule-free HIP (open HIP) is a process of conducting hot isostatic pressing on the material not contained in a capsule, and is different from the ordinary HIP in which no pressure is applied to the inner part of the material which is contained in a capsule which collapses at high temperatures.
- the porosity by spraying method depends greatly on the particle size of the powder to be used, in other words, a spray film with gradient porosity is formed only by varying the particle size of the powder to be used.
- the vacuum plasma spraying method is to spray in a reduced inert atmosphere of about tens to hundreds of Torr, it is possible to form a film less in oxide coating, strong in bonding force among particles, and tight in contact with the high strength substrate.
- a capsule-free HIP it is possible to eliminate causes of increase of thermal resistance, or closed pores where stress is concentrated. In this case, by performing infiltration at ordinary pressure or high pressure with inert gas or in reducing atmosphere, the open pores may be filled up with the second material.
- cracks and other defects in electron beam heating may be reduced, while the input heat density may be increased.
- this method comprises the first step 51 through the fifth step 55.
- substrate surface is cleaned at the first step.
- the substrate cleaned in the first step 51 and the same material are sprayed, for example by vacuum plasma spraying, to slope the composition continuously.
- the third step 53 by the open HIP, leaving the open pores (communicating with outside) formed in the second step 52, the closed pores (not communicating with outside) are destroyed.
- a low melting metal for example, Cu is infiltrated into the pores obtained in the third step 53.
- the fifth step 55 is for machining.
- the sixth embodiment brings about the following effects. Since the vacuum plasma spraying in the second step 52 is to spray in an inert gas atmosphere at tens of Torr, the material is not oxidized. By using powder material of large particle size for spraying, the internal unmolten particles drift and deposit, and a film of a relatively large porosity may be formed.
- the closed pores can be eliminated while leaving the open pores formed by vacuum plasma spraying in the second step 52.
- the low melting material Cu By infiltrating the low melting material Cu into the material W possessing only open pores and having gradient pores obtained in this way, it is possible to spray in a relatively wide area, and a large and continuous gradient material may be fabricated.
- a gradient structure may be formed, and the gradient is continuous, while it was stepwise in the first embodiment, so that the thermal stress may be alleviated furthermore. Consequently, the thermal stress alleviation on the interface of different materials such as coating and joint may function effectively, so that the heat cycle characteristic and heat resistance may be improved.
- any one of W, Mo, Ta, Nb, Re, V, ZrO 2 , MgO, Al 2 O 3 , Y 2 O 3 , SiC, Si 3 N 4 , BN, AlN may be used, and the low melting material may be selected from Cu, Ag, Fe, Ni, Co or their alloys.
- the vacuum plasma spraying in the sixth embodiment is not limitative, but as far as the material is excellent in oxidation resistance, any atmospheric spraying method such as plasma spraying, gas spraying and arc spraying method may be applied, and same effects will be obtained.
- a seventh embodiment is explained by reference to the process chart in Fig. 18.
- This embodiment is characterized by the HIP infiltration to treat at high pressure, when infiltrating the second material into the pores of the first material in the fourth step of the first embodiment. That is, after obtaining the sintered body in the third step 63, infiltration by open HIP is conducted at the fourth step 64, and then HIP infiltration is carried out at the fifth step 65.
- the second material can be securely infiltrated into open pores.
- inert gas such as Ar and He
- the problem of oxidation of material may be eliminated.
- an active element may be added in the liquid to promote infiltration into the fine pores.
- FIG. 19 is a process chart for explaining the fabricating method, and at the first step 71, the dope rolled material is fabricated to make the heat receiving side with single crystals of W, Mo. At the step 72, the surface of the rolled material obtained in the first step 71 is roughened by blasting or the like, and W powder is laminated in gradient.
- the materials are sent to the fourth step 74, in which, simultaneously with the third step 73, by making use of secondary recrystallization, the minimum surface doped W, Mo rolled materials of W, Mo are grown into giant crystal grains to prepare a skeleton of W or Mo.
- the heat receiving side is the single crystal.
- Cu is infiltrated into the pores sloped at the fourth step 74, and it is machined and finished at the sixth step 76.
- the heat receiving material 77 made in such process is shown in Fig. 20.
- the large thermal stress receiving unstationarily is borne by the single crystal W Or Mo excelling in ductility on the heat receiving surface 78, while the stationary thermal stress is alleviated by the W/Cu gradient composition beneath it.
- the W/Cu gradient composition beneath it By eliminating the grain boundary of W and Mo where grain boundary brittleness is likely to occur, a heat receiving material having W, Mo extremely excellent in ductility disposed at the heating side is obtained. Aside from superior heating performance, the thermal impact property by quick heating is improved.
- This embodiment for manufacturing the heat receiving material also avoids the following points. That is, in fabrication of sintered body of W, Mo and giant crystal grain growth, sintering of W, Mo powder is sometimes promoted too much, and a porosity gradient region may not be fabricated sufficiently. Accordingly, in this embodiment, by using particles of about 10 microns, this problem is avoided. Besides, by vacuum plasma spraying, it is possible to form a gradient region 80 of W, Mo on the rear side of the single crystal plate. Moreover, by executing the giant crystal growth in the first place, the powder may be laminated in gradient on the surface of the single crystal material, and then the sintered bond Cu is infiltrated, so that a similar heat receiving plate may be manufactured.
- the heat receiving side 78 is W, or Mo, but this heat receiving side may be also made of Re or V, or an alloy mainly comprising W, Mo, Re or V.
- a high thermal conductive material such as Cu, Ag, Fe or their alloy may be formed, and the composition may be sloped from the heat receiving side 78 to the opposite side.
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- A method of fabricating a composite material composed of a first material and a second material which do not mix with each other in solid solution and which have a relatively high melting point and a relatively low melting point, respectively, said method comprising:a first step of forming pores in said first material to obtain a substrate material having a porosity distribution, with the porosity gradually decreasing from a surface region defined in the first material toward a further region, by using one or more methods selected from the group consisting of a thermal spraying method, a chemical deposition method and a physical deposition method, anda second step of infiltrating said second material in a molten state into said pores of the first material having the porosity distribution in which porosity gradually decreases obtained in the first step, to obtain a gradient composition material having a gradient distribution of a composite ratio of said first material and said second material.
- A fabricating method according to claim 1, wherein said first step of obtaining said substrate material having said porosity distribution, with the gradually decreasing porosity, further comprises:(a) a sub-step of molding a mixture of said first material and an element miscible with said first material in a solid solution state during molding to form a molded member; and(b) a sub-step of sintering said molded member obtained in said sub-step (a), for solid-solution reinforcement, thereby obtaining the substrate material which has a porosity distribution wherein the porosity decreases gradually.
- A fabricating method according to claim 1, wherein said first step of obtaining said substrate material having said porosity distribution, with the gradually decreasing porosity, further comprises:(c) a sub-step of molding a mixture of said first material and one selected from the group consisting of a plurality of types of compound materials having a property of being dispersed without chemically reacting with said first material during molding to make a molded member; and(d) a sub-step of sintering said molded member obtained in said sub-step (c), for dispersion-reinforcement, thereby obtaining the substrate material which has a porosity distribution wherein the porosity decreases gradually.
- A fabricating method according to claim 1, wherein said first step comprising:(e) a step of preparing a reinforced member by reinforcing said first material by a method selected from the group consisting of a rolling method, a forging method, an alloying method; and (f) a step of spraying a common material to said reinforced member obtained by vacuum-plasma spraying means to obtain a substrate material having a porosity distribution.
- A fabricating method according to claim 4, wherein said first step of forming said pores can be achieved by spraying a material similar to said reinforced member by spraying means.
- A fabricating method according to claim 4, wherein said first step comprises:(g) a sub-step or treating said reinforced member obtained in said first step by spraying a material similar to that of said reinforced member thereto by spraying means so as to prepare the substrate material having pores; and(h) a sub-step of treating said substrate material obtained in said sub-step (g) by hot isostatic pressing.
- A fabricating method according to claim 6, wherein said hot isostatic pressing treatment is a capsule-free method in which said substrate is treated without being put in a capsule.
- A fabricating method according to claim 1, wherein said first step comprising:a step of forming a laminate of a substrate material selected from the group consisting of a dope-added press-rolled material and forged material as the low heat conductive material, and powder of the same kind as said substrate material, said powder being accumulated on one side of said selected substrate material;and a step of preparing, by sintering said laminate, a sintered material having a porosity distribution.
- A fabricating method according to claim 8, wherein one side of said selected substrate material is covered with said powder by vacuum plasma spraying.
- A fabricating method according to claim 1, wherein said first step comprising:a first substep preparing a plurality of mixtures different in grain size by mixing first-material powder which is different grain size with second-element powder which is soluble with the first-material powder in solid solution;a second substep of forming a laminated member wherein the mixtures formed in the first substep are stacked one upon another such that the grain size of the mixtures increases from a bottom of the laminated member to a top thereof; anda third substep of forming a member reinforced in solid solution by treating the laminated member formed in the second substep;a fourth substep of preparing a sintered member by sintering the laminated member formed in the third substep, such that the sintered member has a porous distribution.
- A fabricating method according to claim 1, wherein said first step comprising:a first substep of preparing a plurality of mixtures different in grain size by mixing first-material powder which is different in grain size with second-element powder which is soluble with the first-material powder in solid solution;a second substep of forming a laminated member wherein the mixtures formed in the first substep are stacked one upon another such that the grain size of the mixtures increases from a bottom of the laminated member to a top thereof;a third substep of forming a dispersed and reinforced member by treating the laminated member formed in the second substep;a fourth substep of preparing a sintered porous member by sintering the laminated member formed in the third substep, such that the sintered member has a porosity distribution.
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