Preparation and Characterization of Coated Alumina/Aluminum Cermet Composite Powder via Ball Milling Method

Abstract:

Cermet is an important new engineering material that not only maintains the excellent properties of ceramic materials, but also has the advantages of metal materials. In this paper, the encapsulated alumina-aluminum composite powder was prepared by ball milling and characterized, which laid a foundation for the development of high properties cermet materials. Through the analysis of experimental results, the conclusions are shown when the ball milling time is greater than 3 h, the alumina particles are more evenly distributed around the aluminum powder. the ball milling for 6 h may have reached a limit of the mixing uniformity of the two powder, so the ball milling is determined 6 h as the better ball milling time. Under the ball milling condition of 50 r/min, the distribution of alumina particles around the aluminum powder is more uniform around the aluminum powder than the ball mill under 75 r/min, the ball milling speed is preferably 50 r/min. As the content of aluminum powder increases, the distribution of alumina in aluminum powder is large and uniform, and there is a small amount of pinning. It provides a package-like composite for the preparation of cermet with a wrapped structure and the thermal conduction mechanism of the controlled cermet.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 861)
• Pages: 250-255
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.861.250
• Online since: September 2020
• Authors: Fang Wang, Ai Xia Chen, Chao Yang, Min Han Xu, Da Ming Du, Hui Hui Luo, Chun Yan He, Jie Guang Song*
• Keywords: Alumina, Ball Milling, Composite Powder, Metallic Ceramic Materials

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