Abstract
Ceramic Ti 2 AlC building blocks of 4 × 1.24 × 1.24 mm³ size were prepared by injection molding and assembled to brick-and-mortar structures with tetragonal, monoclinic and triclinic unit cells. The single building blocks were bonded with an Al-loaded polysiloxane adhesive, which was afterwards pyrolized. Afterwards the 3D-assemblies were infiltrated with an Al-melt to fabricate dense 0–3 ceramic-metal composites. The influence of the unit cell of the resulting Ti 2 AlC-Al composites was investigated regarding the mechanical properties and damage mechanisms in bending tests. The developed near-net shape fabrication process shows great potential to manufacture structured ceramic-metal composites with high toughness and complex shape. Due to their ductile behavior scaffold applications are possible. The calculated initial fracture toughness of monolithic Ti 2 AlC could be improved from 5.0 MPa m 0.5 to 14.5 MPa m 0.5 for the monoclinic assembly and 14.7 MPa m 0.5 for the triclinic assembly, corresponding to an increase of 191%.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2003-2009 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Journal of the European Ceramic Society |
Volume | 39 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 2019 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Brick-and-mortar composites
- Building blocks
- MAX-Phase
- Scaffold
- Topological toughening