Preparation and ablation properties of ZrC-SiC coating for carbon/carbon composites by solid phase infiltration

Zhaoqian Li, Hejun Li, Wei Li, Jie Wang, Shouyang Zhang, Juan Guo

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Abstract

A novel ZrC-SiC coating was prepared on carbon/carbon (C/C) composites surface by solid phase infiltration and the ablation properties of the ZrC-SiC coated C/C composites under oxyacetylene flame were studied. The results show that the coating prepared on the condition of optimum process parameters exhibits dense surface and outstanding anti-ablation ability. After ablation for 20 s, the mass ablation rates of the coated C/C composites can be lowered to 2.36 × 10 -3 g/s, 37.1% reduction compared with uncoated C/C composites. The oxide layer composed of ZrO 2 and SiO 2 acts as oxygen diffusion barrier and the evaporation of ZrO 2 and SiO 2 absorbs a great amount of heat from the flame and reduces the erosive attack on the coating.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)565-571
Number of pages7
JournalApplied Surface Science
Volume258
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Oct 2011

Keywords

  • Ablation properties
  • Carbon/carbon composites
  • Solid phase infiltration
  • ZrC-SiC coating

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