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    • Keywords

       

      TaC–TaB2; spark plasma sintering; hardness; flexure strength; microstructure.

    • Abstract

       

      The TaC–TaB2 composition was sintered by spark plasma (SPS) at 1900–2100°C and applied pressure of 30 MPa. TaC and 2–3 wt% B4C were used as starting powders. Densification process, phase evolution, microstructure and the mechanical properties of the composites were investigated. The results indicated that the TaC–TaB2 composition could be SPS to 97% of theoretical density in 10 min at 2100°C. Addition of B4C leads to an increase in the density sample from 76 to 97%. B4C nano-powder resists grain growth even at high temperature 2100°C. The formation of TaB2/carbon at TaC grain boundaries helps in pinning the grain boundary and inhibiting grain growth. The phase formation was associated with carbon and boron diffusion from the starting particles B4C to form TaB2 phases. TaC grain sizes decreased with increase in B4C concentration. Samples with 2.0 wt% B4C composition had highest flexure strength up to 520 MPa. The effect of B4C addition on hardness measured by microhardness has been studied. Hardness of samples containing 3.0 wt% B4C was 16.99 GPa.

    • Author Affiliations

       

      Behzad Mehdikhani1 Gholam Hossein Borhani1 Saeed Reza Bakhshi1 Hamid Reza Baharvandi2

      1. Department of Materials Engineering, Malek-e-Ashtar University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran
      2. Department of Materials Engineering, Malek-e-Ashtar University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

    • Dates

       
      Published
      February 2016
      Manuscript received
      28 July 2015
      Accepted
      19 October 2015

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