Fabrication and Mechanical Property of SiC/SiC Composites by Selective Laser Sintering Technology Combined with Precursor Impregnation and Pyrolysis Process
ZENG Tao, ZHOU Yikai, ZHANG Kun, et al. Fabrication and Mechanical Property of SiC/SiC Composites by Selective Laser Sintering Technology Combined with Precursor Impregnation and Pyrolysis Process[J]. 2020, 25(3): 163-168.
In order to improve the density and mechanical propertyof ceramics fabricated by selective laser sintering (SLS) process
a new methodthat combined SLS with precursor impregnation and pyrolysis (PIP) process waspresented to fabricated silicon carbide particulate/silicon carbide matrix(SiC/SiC) ceramic composites Starting with SiC powders of 17~70 μm sizes
thepreform was produced by printing epoxy binder To gain the dense composites
theSiC preforms were infiltrated with polycarbosilane liquid and pyrolyzed at 1200℃under nitrogen atmosphere for 8 repeated cycles The porosity of the specimengreatly decreased and the density reached to 245 g/cm3 after PIP processAnalysis of results and discussions of optimum printing parameters
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microstructure and bending strength for SiC/SiC composites are alsopresented The mechanical property of the SiC/SiC composite fabricated bySLS/PIP process has been improved and its bending strength attained 13828 MPaIn addition
the netshape silicon carbide components with complex surface andinner structure were fabricated