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Călin-Virgiliu Prica1, Traian Florin Marinca1, Bogdan Viorel Neamțu1
1Materials Science and Engineering Department, Faculty of Materials and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 103-106, Muncii Ave, 400641 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Abstract:
The composite materials are used on an increasingly large scale in top fields, such as the automotive, aerospace, and nuclear industries, due to the combination of the specific properties of the composite components. Invar/WC nanocrystalline composite compacts were successfully obtained by spark plasma sintering from mechanical milled composite powder. The influence of the amount of tungsten carbide (WC) on sintering, coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE), and hardness has been investigated. The relative density and hardness of Invar/WC composite compacts increases with increasing the WC content up to 10 vol.%. At higher amount of WC (15% vol.), the relative density and hardness of the Invar/WC composite compacts decreases. The temperature up to which CTE remains at a low value (0.6-1) × 10-6 °C-1 is influenced by the WC content and decreases with the WC amount of increase.
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