Agency of Industrial Science and Technology

Yukio Kai

Tadahiko Watanabe

Kazuhisa Shobu

Hideki Yamamoto

Osamu Yagishita

Tsuyoshi Doutsu

Junshiro Hayakawa

Eiichi Sudoh

A high density metal-boride based ceramic sintered body consists essentially of component (A) at least one of TiB.sub.2, ZrB.sub.2, CrB.sub.2, HfB.sub.2, VB.sub.2, TaB.sub.2, NbB.sub.2, MnB.sub.2, MoB.sub.2, YB.sub.2, AlB.sub.2, MgB.sub.2, CrB, VB, TaB, NbB, MoB, HfB, YB, ZrB, HfB, TiB, MnB, W.sub.2 B.sub.5 and Mo.sub.2 B.sub.5, componet (B) 0.1 wt. %-10 wt. % based on the total amount of a metal binder comprising at least one of cobalt boride, nickel boride and iron boride, and component (C) 0.1 wt. %-10 wt. % based on the total amount of at least one of a double carbide comprising Ti, Zr, W and C, ZrCN, HfCN, or a double carbo-nitride comprising Ti, Zr, Hf and C, N. The sintered body is not easily oxidized and has extremely few pores and high shock resistance even using a fine grain raw material powder because component (C) has an oxygen removing effect during sintering.

High density metal boride-based ceramic sintered body

New ceramics have excellent mechanical properties such as high density, strength, hardness and toughness. The new ceramics are prepared by sintering a mixture prepared by adding 1 to 90 percent by weight of chromium carbide to titanium carbo-nitride together with some elements selected from the group of transition metals of groups IV, V, VI and VII, ferrous metals and semi-metals. For some types of new ceramics, boron carbide is added, too.

Titanium carbo-nitride and chromium carbide-based ceramics containing

A powder of at least one of TiB.sub.2, ZrB.sub.2 and HfB.sub.2 is mixed with at least one of Ti, Zr, Hf, TiB, ZrB and HfB, or with at least one of Ti, Zr, Hf, TiB, ZrB and HfB and a powder of boron, to prepare a mixed powder which can form a sintered product having a boron content of 65 to 67 atom %. Alternatively, a powder of at least one of Ti, Zr, Hf, TiB, ZrB and HfB is mixed with a powder of boron to prepare the mixed powder. The mixed powder may further contain up to a maximum of 30% by weight of a powder of AlN. Then, the mixed powder is sintered to make metal diboride ceramics. The lower-melting metal or compound which the mixed powder contains melts to form a liquid phase and enables the manufacture of a sintered product of high density by a customary sintering operation employing a low temperature. The sintered product having a boron content of 65 to 67 atom % consists solely of metal diboride crystals having a structure of the hexagonal system.

Method of manufacture metal diboride ceramics

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