Structure and Mechanical Properties of C/C-SiC Composites Prepared by CVI-GSI Processes

Abstract

C/C-SiC composites were prepared by the combined process of chemical vapor infiltration (CVI) and gaseous silicon infiltration (GSI) using C/C green body with the density of 1.0g/cm3. Effect of CVI C/C-SiC intermediate composites' density on the phase composition, microstructure and mechanical properties of CVI-GSI C/C-SiC composites was studied. The results show that as the CVI C/C-SiC intermediate composites' density increases, the residual C content increases and residual Si content decreases in the CVI-GSI C/C-SiC composites, the SiC content increases first and then decreases, and the density of CVI-GSI C/C-SiC composites increases first and then decreases; as the CVI C/C-SiC in termediate composites' density is increased from 1.27g/cm3 to 1.63g/cm3, the mechanical properties of CVI-GSI C/C-SiC composites increase at first, which then decrease with the further increasing of CVI-C/C-SiC composites' density. Specifically, when the CVI C/C-SiC composites density is 1.42g/cm3, the prepared CVI-GSI C/C-SiC composites has the best mechanical properties, with flexure strength, flexure modulus and fracture toughness of 247.50MPa, 25.63GPa and 10.08MPa·m1/2, respectively.

Keywords

• CVI
• GSI
• C/C-SiC composites
• phase composition
• mechanical property