Fabrication of Bulk (Fe,Cr)_3Al/Al_2O_3 Intermetallic Matrix Nanocomposite Through Mechanical Alloying and Sintering

作     者：Sayyed Erfan Aghili Mohammad Hossein Enayati Fathallah Karimzadeh 

作者机构：Department of Materials Engineering Isfahan University of Technology 

出 版 物：《Acta Metallurgica Sinica(English Letters)》 (金属学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2016年第29卷第10期

页      面：911-919页

核心收录：

学科分类：08[工学] 0817[工学-化学工程与技术] 0806[工学-冶金工程] 0807[工学-动力工程及工程热物理] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 0802[工学-机械工程] 0703[理学-化学] 0811[工学-控制科学与工程] 

主　　题：Iron aluminide Mechanical alloying Nanocomposite Mechanochemical treatment 

摘      要：In the present study, （Fe,Cr）3Al/20 vol% A1203 nanocomposite was prepared through mechanochemical reactions during ball milling and successfully bulked using a combination of cold isostatic press and sintering at 1400℃ for 1 h. Two processing approaches were utilized to produce （Fe,Cr）3A1/A1203 nanocomposite： The first was milling of Fe, Cr, AI and Fe203, while the second one was milling of Fe, Cr, Al and Cr203, both in stoichiometric condition, to synthesize （Fe,Cr）3Al/20 vol% Al2O3. Structural changes of powder particles during mechanical alloying were studied by X-ray diffraction. The microstructure and the morphology of powder particles and bulk samples were also studied by scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. Microstructural analysis showed that mechanochemical reactions took place during milling, and nanometric Al2O3 was uniformly distributed in the matrix. The results also showed that the second approach required a considerably higher milling time to produce （Fe,Cr）3Al/Al2O3 nanocomposite, as compared to the first one. For this reason, bulk samples were produced from the synthesized nanocomposite in the first approach. The microstructure of the sintered samples consisted of a network structure of （Fe,Cr）3Al and Al2O3 phases with superior mechanical properties.