EP1520055A2 - Procede de synthese d un materiau composite metal-ceramique a durete renforcee et materiau obtenu par ce procede - Google Patents
Procede de synthese d un materiau composite metal-ceramique a durete renforcee et materiau obtenu par ce procedeInfo
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- the invention relates to a process for the synthesis of a metal-ceramic composite according to which a mixture of powders composed of a non-oxide ceramic and at least one soft metal is obtained by a step of co-grinding in a grinder, so as to form a powder mixture in which the ceramic is intimately embedded in the metal powder, then the powder mixture is compacted and sintered.
- Metals or alloys having a particular luster such as gold or silver, have the disadvantage of being metals having a low hardness, which makes them little or not resistant to wear and scratches. It is known to increase their hardness by combining them with harder particles. The existing methods are however not satisfactory. Indeed, these additions of particles can cause the luster of the metal or the alloy to be lost, which poses a problem, in particular in applications such as goldsmithing, jewelry or watchmaking.
- the document GB575929 describes a material comprising silver or a silver alloy and a hard and powdery material, which can be a carbide or a nitride.
- the pulverulent material is pressed and sintered before being brought into contact with the silver, the assembly being heated in a reducing atmosphere to a temperature above the melting temperature of the silver.
- the powdery material and silver can also be mixed together and sintered.
- the major problem with these liquid phase processes is that the ceramic particles have poor wettability in the liquid phase comprising the soft metal. The ceramic particles then tend not to ally with the metal or the alloy, making the composite materials porous and brittle.
- the document EP-A-0520465 describes a sintered alloy of golden color, obtained by mixing a titanium nitride, a titanium carbonitride and metals of the iron family. The mixture is sprayed in an organic solvent such as acetone. An organic binder is then added and the mixture is molded and then heated in a non-oxidizing atmosphere, at a temperature between 250 ° C and 500 ° C, so as to remove the organic binder. The mixture is then placed in an oven at a predetermined temperature, adding tungsten and chromium. This process, thanks to the use of a solvent and a large amount of chromium, solves the problem of wettability of the ceramic particles, but it turns out to be difficult to implement.
- the document EP-A-0130034 describes a process for manufacturing a composite material in which reinforcing particles are distributed in a metallic matrix.
- a metal powder and reinforcing particles are co-ground in an attritor mill, the assembly then being pressed then sintered at a temperature below that of the solidus of the metal powder.
- the metals used to form the metallic matrix of the composite material are, in particular, chosen from iron, nickel, titanium, molybdenum, zirconium, copper and aluminum.
- the particles of reinforcement are chosen from silicon carbides, aluminum oxides, zirconium, garnet, simple or complex carbides, borides, carbo-borides and carbo-nitrides of tantalum, tungsten, hafnium zirconium and titanium and intermetallic compounds.
- the object of the invention is to provide a process for the synthesis of a non-porous or weakly porous and very slightly brittle composite material, which is simple to implement and which makes it possible to strengthen the hardness, and therefore to improve the resistance to wear and to scratches, of a metal or an alloy having a low initial hardness, preferably while retaining its initial luster or by giving it a particular color.
- this object is achieved by the fact that the non-oxide ceramic is chosen so as to have a density close to that of the soft metal, the soft metal being chosen from noble metals and copper.
- the soft metal constitutes one of the components of an alloy.
- the alloy is formed by a preliminary stage of co-grinding, before being itself co-ground with the ceramic, so that the latter becomes embedded in the powder d 'alloy.
- an alloy is formed in the mill with at least one metallic addition element, so as to improve the wettability of the ceramic in a liquid phase formed by the alloy during sintering, the temperature of sintering being higher than the temperature of the solidus of the alloy.
- the invention also relates to a metal-ceramic composite material obtained by the above process, the density of the composite material being between 90% and 100% of that of the metal or of the alloy comprising the metal and the Vickers hardness. of the composite material being greater than 400Hv.
- Figures 1 and 2 show an attritor mill used in a process for synthesizing a composite material according to the invention.
- FIG. 3 represents the variation of the density of a complex tantalum and titanium carbide (TaC-TiC) as a function of the content x of TaC in the complex carbide.
- FIG. 4 represents the variation of the density d of a complex nitride of hafnium and titanium (HfN-T N) as a function of the content x of HfN in the complex nitride.
- FIG. 5 represents the variation of the density of a gold-silicon-magnesium alloy (Au-Si-Mg) as a function of the percentage of magnesium contained in the alloy.
- Figure 6 illustrates a phase diagram of the Silver - Silicon (Ag-Si) alloy.
- the first step in the process for synthesizing a metal-ceramic composite material consists in co-grinding, in a grinder, a non-oxide ceramic powder and a metal powder comprising at least one soft metal whose scratch resistance and resistance to wear should be improved.
- soft metal is meant a metal having a low hardness and which has little or no resistance to scratches and wear.
- the non-oxide ceramic is chosen so as to have a density close to that of the soft metal to be reinforced.
- the mill is preferably a ball mill 1, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2.
- the ball mill 1, also called attritor mill, comprises an enclosure 2 in which the powders to be treated 4 and balls 3 of are placed. steel or hard metal, the balls ensuring the co-grinding of the powders.
- the enclosure 2 is hermetically closed by a cover 5 which may include means 6 for controlling the pressure and the atmosphere, inside the enclosure 2.
- the crusher is preferably driven in a rotational movement ( Figure 2), around its own axis of symmetry 7 and in a movement of revolution, preferably ellipsoidal, around an axis of revolution 8.
- This double rotational movement causes shocks between the steel balls and between them and the walls of the enclosure 2.
- the ductile metal particles are welded by enveloping the ceramic particles, harder than the metal particles, until a homogeneous powder is obtained without particle agglomerates.
- the soft metals intended to form the composite material are chosen from noble metals and copper.
- the soft metals can be gold, silver, platinum, palladium and copper. They can be pure, then constituting, on their own, the metallic matrix of the composite material, reinforced by the ceramic particles. They can also be combined with other elements, preferably during a preliminary co-grinding step in the same mill as that used for co-grinding with ceramic.
- Gold can be, for example, pre-alloyed with other metals such as silver, copper, nickel ...
- This alloy powder is then co-ground with the ceramic, so that the ceramic s 'embedded in the powder of the alloy constituting the metallic matrix of the composite material. This inlaying of the ceramic particles in the metal matrix makes it possible to obtain, in the end, a non-porous and very fragile material.
- the non-oxide ceramic powder used to strengthen the metal matrix must initially be very fine and regular, with an average particle size of between 0.1 ⁇ m and 5 ⁇ m, and preferably between 0.1 ⁇ m and 1 ⁇ m. This particle size can be obtained by any suitable method, the ceramic powder can, for example, be ground in the attritor mill 1, before being mixed with the metal powder.
- the non-oxide ceramics used to reinforce the hardness of metals or soft alloys are preferably carbides or nitrides, simple or complex, of a metallic element.
- the metallic element is preferably chosen from titanium, tantalum, zirconium and hafnium. The choice of ceramics to be used depends not only on the nature, composition and density of the metal or alloy to be reinforced, but also on the brightness of the composite material that one wishes to obtain.
- a ceramic will be chosen whose density is close to that of the metal or of the alloy to be reinforced, which makes it possible to avoid discharges of the ceramic particles during sintering, in particular in the liquid phase.
- nitrides and carbides can have a very wide density range, using, for example, nitrides or complex carbides, such as HfN / TiN or TaC / TiC, synthesized according to the process described in document WO-A -9947454.
- FIGS. 3 and 4 illustrate the variation in the density of the complex carbide TaC / TiC and of the complex nitride HfN / TiN, respectively as a function of the content of HfN and TaN.
- the density of the carbide is between 4.92 and 14.5 while that of the complex nitride varies from 5.4 to 13.5. This makes it possible to choose the nitrides or carbides most suitable for the metal or the alloy to be reinforced, that is to say those which have a density close to that of the metal or alloy to be reinforced.
- nitrides and carbides of titanium (TiN, TiC), tantalum (TaN, TaC), zirconium (ZrN, ZrC) and hafnium (HfN, HfC) have a particularly metallic luster in the solid state.
- Ceramics, such as TiN with a yellow gold luster, TiC with a silver gray luster or TaC with a red gold luster can be incorporated into gold or silver, or to alloys comprising gold or silver, without altering their color. It is also possible to modify the luster of a metal or a metal alloy, by incorporating ceramic particles having a different luster than that of the metal or alloy.
- the incorporation of TiN or TaC particles in a white metal gives the resulting alloy a golden luster.
- the homogeneous powder resulting therefrom is compacted so as to obtain a pellet having a minimum porosity.
- Compaction is carried out by any suitable type of process. It can be carried out either at room temperature, or at a higher temperature but lower than the melting temperature of the metal or at the temperature of the solidus of the alloy comprising the metal to be reinforced.
- the pellet is then sintered in an oven, preferably under vacuum.
- the sintering temperature can be lower, either to the melting temperature of the metal to be reinforced, if the latter is not pre-alloyed, or to the solidus temperature of the alloy comprising the metal to be reinforced. In this case, the sintering takes place in the solid phase. Sintering can also be carried out in the liquid phase, that is to say at a temperature higher than the melting temperature of the metal to be reinforced or, where appropriate, at the temperature of the solidus of the alloy. In the case of sintering in the liquid phase, addition elements are preferably added before or during the co-grinding of the ceramic and of the metal or of the alloy to be reinforced.
- the addition elements improve the wettability of the ceramic particles in the liquid metallic phase as well as the cohesion of the composite material formed.
- These addition elements are elements having a good affinity with non-oxide ceramics. They are preferably chosen from silicon, magnesium, iron, cobalt, nickel, copper and manganese. They also make it possible to vary the density of the alloy.
- Silicon forms with gold a eutectic composition at 3.16% by weight of silicon.
- This eutectic gold-silicon alloy is particularly advantageous for sintering in the liquid phase, because it makes it possible to considerably lower the sintering temperature and reduces the density of the metal alloy, bringing it closer to that of ceramics. The choice of close densities for the ceramic and the metal alloy then allows better stability of the ceramic suspension in the metallic phase.
- the table also indicates the ceramics which it is preferable to use according to the composition of the alloy Au-Si-Mg, so as to choose ceramics having a density close to that of the alloy.
- the table above also indicates the maximum quantity of ceramic to be added to 100 grams of Au-Si-Mg alloy, to obtain a composite material comprising 75% gold, i.e. gold with 18 carats.
- the composite material obtained according to one of the embodiments of the synthesis process preferably has a density of between 90% and 100% of that of the metal or of the alloy intended to be reinforced.
- the incorporation of hard ceramic particles makes it possible to obtain a composite material having a Vickers hardness greater than 400 Hv.
- TiN titanium nitride
- the mixture is then compacted hot at 900 ° C in a graphite mold under a pressure of 140 tonnes / cm 2 , so as to obtain a pellet of 1 cm in diameter and 0.3 cm thick.
- the pellet is then sintered for one hour, in a oven maintained under vacuum at a temperature of 800 ° C.
- the composite material has a final Vickers hardness of 450 Hv and a density of 96% compared to the initial density of the Au-Cu-Ag alloy.
- the addition of TiN allows the composite material to retain the yellow gold color of the initial alloy.
- a powdery alloy of gold and nickel at 7% was produced in the mill for 50 hours.
- the alloy was then co-ground with 18% by weight of TiC, then compacted at 930 ° C under a pressure of 150 tonnes / cm 2 .
- the whole is then sintered at 800 ° C. under vacuum.
- the composite material has a density close to 99% that of the initial alloy.
- the hardness after annealing at low temperature is 520 Hv and the wear resistance of the material is 70% higher than that of 18-carat rolled gold.
- Nickel making it possible to improve the cohesion of titanium carbide and gold from a weight content of 6%, makes it possible to obtain a composite material having the color of white gold.
- the composite material was obtained according to the procedure of Example 2, by replacing the titanium carbide with titanium nitride.
- the compaction pressure for example between 120 tonnes / cm 2 and 160 tonnes / cm 2 , it is possible to modify the density and hardness of the composite material obtained.
- the composite material was obtained by sintering in the liquid phase according to the following procedure:
- the mixture obtained is then compacted under a pressure of 140 tonnes / cm 2 , then sintered at 800 ° C under vacuum for 3 hours.
- the melting of the alloy takes place in a temperature range between 400 ° C and 800 ° C.
- the pellet obtained has a weight of 29.97 g, its density is 11.9, that is to say 97% of that of the Au-Si-Mg alloy.
- the composite material obtained has the color of yellow gold.
- the compaction is carried out in the same manner as in Example 1.
- the sintering was carried out at 1000 ° C. for 3 hours under vacuum, so as to effect sintering in the solid phase.
- the composite material obtained, of gray appearance, tending towards black, has a density close to 11 and a Vickers hardness of approximately 700 Hv.
- 0.3 g of silicon powder and 9.305 g of silver powder are co-ground in the attritor mill for 36 hours.
- the particle sizes of the two powders are between 10 ⁇ m and 50 ⁇ m.
- the alloy obtained corresponds to a eutectic alloy melting at 835 ° C (see Figure 6).
- the mixture is compacted under a pressure of 140 tonnes / cm 2 and then sintered at 850 ° C under vacuum.
- the pellet obtained weighs 19.6 g and has a density of 9.4, having a hardness of 650 Hv and a golden appearance.
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