BASIC INVESTIGATIONS OF CERAMIC FIBRE-ALLOY COMPACTS
Abstract
An investigation was made to devise techniques of producing composite materials of non-metallic fibers and metals and to test such composite materials with the view of evaluating the factors that affect their strength. The technique finally achieved involves the infiltration of coated fibers by molten metals that cannot penetrate the fiber coating. The necessity of having a coating on the fiber that prevents attack by the molten metal but which promotes wetting of the fibers by the molten metal was shown by the results of tests. Two coatings are especially useful, namely nickel and molybdenum. Both these metals do not tend to attack silica or more refractory oxides. Hence, they are compatible with most non-metallic fibers including glass fibers. The metals can be deposited on the fibers from the gas phase by thermal decomposition of the metal carbonyls.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 08, 1960
- Accession Number
- AD0610541
Entities
People
- E. S. Machlin
- M. M. Skrill
- S. Weinig