Joining carbon/carbon composites with radially-aligned carbon nanotube-reinforced pyrocarbon bonding interlayer

Lei Feng, Ke zhi Li, Bei Xue, Qiang Song, Xin rui Song, Qian gang Fu

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Abstract

We reported a novel carbon nanotube/pyrocarbon (CNT/PyC) interlayer for joining carbon/carbon composites (C/C). Radially-aligned CNT was in-situ grown on the bonding surface of C/C and followed by the infiltration of PyC between CNT-covered C/C. Mechanical tests indicated that the average shear strength of CNT/PyC-bonded C/C was 19.2 MPa, 104% higher than that of neat PyC-bonded C/C. This great improvement results from the outstanding contributions of CNT involving enhancing interlayer-C/C interfacial interaction, inducing PyC texture to align around nanotubes instead of parallel to the bonding surface and increasing additional fracture process, which change the failure of bonded C/C from bonding-interlayer-failure dominated mode to substrate-failure dominated one.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)158-161
Number of pages4
JournalMaterials Letters
Volume187
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Jan 2017

Keywords

  • Carbon materials
  • Carbon nanotubes
  • Interfaces
  • Structural
  • Texture

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