Abstract
Spark plasma sintered TiB/Ti-6Al-4V composites have been characterized using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). As-SPS processed composites exhibit a more refined distribution of equiaxed α precipitates as compared to arc-melted composites containing similar volume fraction of TiB precipitates. Additionally, SPS processed composites also show a highly refined distribution of TiN precipitates, as revealed by TEM studies.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 202-205 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Materials Letters |
| Volume | 83 |
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| State | Published - Sep 15 2012 |
Funding
This work has been supported in part by the National Space Lab program ( N01090333 ) through the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology , and Defense Acquisition Program Administration and Agency for Defense Development under Basic Research program ( UD080009GD ) as well as the ISES contract awarded to the University of North Texas by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory , AFRL contract number FA8650-08-C-5226 . The authors also gratefully acknowledge the Center for Advanced Research and Technology (CART) at the University of North Texas.
Keywords
- Composite
- Spark plasma sintering
- Ti-6Al-4V
- TiB
- TiN
- α/β phase