Abstract
To improve the oxidation resistance of the SiC-MoSi 2 coating prepared by two-step pack cementation, a liquid Si infiltrating method was adopted to modify it. The phase composition and microstructure of the coatings were analyzed by XRD and SEM. The results show that the size and number of the cracks in the modified coating decreased evidently after infiltrating Si. The oxidation test results in air at 1773 K show that the mass loss of the SiC-MoSi 2 coating coated carbon/carbon (C/C) composites was up to 1.18% after oxidation for 206 h, while that of the modified coating coated C/C composites was only 0.77% after oxidation for 460 h. The reason is that the cracks formed in the pack cementation process were partly sealed and there were no penetrable cracks in the modified coating. Therefore, there were no direct channels for the oxygen to diffuse into the C/C substrate.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 109-114 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Surface Review and Letters |
Volume | 18 |
Issue number | 3-4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 2011 |
Keywords
- Carbon/carbon composites
- coating
- SiC
- SiO