US3870569A - Process for boriding refractory metals and their alloys - Google Patents

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US3870569A
US3870569A US360190A US36019073A US3870569A US 3870569 A US3870569 A US 3870569A US 360190 A US360190 A US 360190A US 36019073 A US36019073 A US 36019073A US 3870569 A US3870569 A US 3870569A
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    • C23COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; CHEMICAL SURFACE TREATMENT; DIFFUSION TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL; INHIBITING CORROSION OF METALLIC MATERIAL OR INCRUSTATION IN GENERAL
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  • the purpose of the invention is the development of a process in which boride layers are produced by the diffusion of boron into refractory metals and alloys of refractory metals. Such layers are characterized by an extremely high hardness and impart an extraordinarily high wear resistance to parts which can consist, for example, of titanium, tantalum, niobium, hafnium, zirconium molybdenum, tungsten or vanadium.
  • the improvement produced by the boriding is above all of significance for metals which are inclined to wear and seizing. This is true, for example, of titanium and all titanium alloys.
  • the alloys of titanium because of their high strength and their low weights, in many respects are ideal work materials. However, they can be added only to a very limited extent for construction parts which both must have strenth and be able to transmit motion because of a decided inclination to seizing.
  • the boride layers furthermore, increase the compressive strength and the bending strength, the oxidation resistance and the corrosion resistance.
  • the boride layers of various refractory metals is characterized by a small wettability and a high resistance to molten metals.
  • the process of the invention is characterized by the following particulars.
  • a vessel of heat resistant material is filled with amorphous boron and slowly heated under a vacuum of 10 to 10 Torr to 1000C. It is held at this temperature for l to 3 hours. (The temperature can range from 850to l300C, in this pretreatment the time of pretreatment can be widely varied). Then the furnace chamber is flooded with the purest argon or one of the other pure noble gases, e.g. helium or neon, and cooled to room temperature. After this treatment not only is the amorphous boron oxygen free but instead of being laden with air oxygen is loaded with noble gas. The adsorptive bond of the noble gas to the amorphous boron is very stabile so that the furnace chamber can be opened without an immediate reloading with air oxygen occurring.
  • the purest argon or one of the other pure noble gases e.g. helium or neon
  • the part to be treated is packed in the pretreated boron, whereupon the furnace chamber is again evacuated and is brought to the treatment temperature provided for. Since the evacuation occurs before the high heating the powder packing is again completely oxygen free before reaching the critical temperatures, that is also if in bringing the parts into the powder packing larger amounts of oxygen are taken up adsorptively.
  • the boriding process preferably does not occur under high vacuum but preferably at a pressure of 10 Torr.
  • the boriding process can be carried out at 10" to 10" Torr. preferably at 10 Torr.
  • the treatmenttemperature can be from 850 to I300C. Titanium, tantalum and niobium are preferably borided in the lower temperature range, thus between 850 and 1000C. I-Iafniurn and zirconium, because of the slower speed of growth of their layers, are more suitably treated above 1000C, the time of treatment, according to the thickness of the layer sought and the material, varies between 2 and 12 hours. In special cases, however, it can also be extended to 24 hours or more. After expiration of the fixed time of treatment the furnace chamber is again flooded with argon (or other noble gas) and the parts after cooling to room temperature can be taken out from the powder packing.
  • argon or other noble gas
  • the next boriding treatment can take place in the same powder packing without the need for renewed oxygen free annealing.
  • the use of pure, amorphous boron has the advantage that this substance is reusable as often as desired. The consumption is extraordinarily small and even after 50 fold use no chemical change of the boron occurs.
  • the amorphous boron has no tendency to sinter together but remains loose and powdery.
  • the solid boriding agents developed for iron materials as a rule contain diluents and activating additives.
  • diluents there can be used aluminum oxide, magnesium oxide, silicon carbide and graphite.
  • chlorides, fluorides and bromides for an activation there can be used chlorides, fluorides and bromides.
  • Such diluents and activating additives can also on principle be employed for the boriding of refractory metals. Their use is recommended, for example, in combination with the already mentioned processes which provide a boriding of titanium work materials under purest argon.
  • this can still be considered to cheapen the boriding agents by replacing the expensive, amorphous boron by cheaper boron compounds, as for example, boron carbide or ferroboron.
  • the process of the invention makes available a high effectiveness even without the addition of known activators. Since, besides, the activators are consumed in the course of time they limit the reusability of the boriding agent and are therefore rather of disadvantage than of advantage.
  • EXAMPLE 1 Samples of pure titanium and the titanium alloy Ti Al 6 V4 were heated for 5 hours at 1000C, and at a pressure of 10 Torr in amorphous, oxygen free annealed boron. In both workpieces there were produced closed, completely pore free boride layers which were toothed in characteristic manner with the base material. The compact part of the layer had in the case of pure titanium, a thickness of 10 um and in the case of the alloy Ti Al 6 V4 a thickness of 8 pm. If the treatment temperature is increased to 1200C, then, after the same time of treatment the thickness of the pure titanium is 35 ,um and of the alloy Ti Al 6 V4 is 30 pm.
  • the thickness of the layer of both workpieces can be raised to above 50 ,um. Also under these conditions the layers are built up completely fault free.
  • the compact portion of the layer consists of the titanium-boride Ti B
  • the dentrites extending deeper into the base material consist predominantly of the boron poor compound Ti B. Both compounds are extremely hard. Their Vickers hardness is between 3500 and 3800 kp/mm EXAMPLE 2 Samples of niobium and tantalum were treated for 5 hours at 900C, and a pressure of 10* Torr in amorphous, oxygen free annealed boron. In both workpieces the layers were built up without flaw and their thickness was between 12 and 18 pm. If the temperature of holding the treatment for 5 hours is increased to 1000C there the thickness of the layer grows to 45 to 50 ,um.
  • the thicker layers are still free of pores but are inclined, however, to the formation of cracks which signifies an increased brittleness of the thicker layers.
  • the layer produced from tantalum consists of the compound Ta B and the layer produced from niobium consists of the compound Nb B
  • the Vickers hardness of both layers is in the range of 3800 to 4200 kp/mm EXAMPLE 3
  • Samples of hafnium and the zirconium alloy, zircaloy, which contains 1.5% of tin were borided for 5 hours at 1 C under a pressure of 10 Torr. In both cases the layer was toothed with the base material and faultlessly formed. In the Zircaloy there was measured a thickness of the layer of 10 am and in the hafnium a thickness of 15 am.
  • a process for boriding a refractory metal consisting essentially of annealing amorphous boron powder in an oxygen-free vacuum and then packing the refractory metal in the oxygen-free amorphous boron powder and boriding the metal in a vacuum at an elevated temperature.
  • refractory metal is a member of the group consisting of titanium, zirconium and hafnium.
  • refractory metal is titanium, hafnium, tantalum, niobium, zirconium, molybdenum, vanadium, tungsten or an alloy of such metals.
  • a process according to claim 1 wherein the oxygen free annealing is carried out at 1000C for l to 3 hours with a vacuum of 10 to 10 Torr.
  • a process according to claim 1 consisting of l) annealing amorphous boron powder in an oxygen-free vacuum, (2) subjecting the annealed boron to an atmosphere of noble gas, (3) packing the refractory metal in the oxygen-free noble gas laden amorphous boron powder, and (4) boriding the metal in a vacuum at an elevated temperature.

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