Abstract: The production of moulded bodies from hard-metal powders by pressing and simultaneous or subsequent heat treatment is known. The mixture of hard material powders and aluminium powders for producing dry-pressed moulded bodies is an example thereof. As a result of the risk of demixing and the loss of homogeneity, the upper limit, for example according to prior art, for the proportion of hard material particles added to the aluminium powder is approximately 20 vol. %. The aim of the invention is to increase the proportion of hard material particles it the mixture. To this end, the inventive method for producing metal ceramic composite materials is characterised by dry-pressing powders with base compositions of between 25 and 79 vol. % of at least one metallic phase, preferably aluminium and the alloys thereof, and between 75 and 21 vol. % of at least one non-metallic inorganic constitnent, as ceramic materials, preferably silicon carbides, aluminium oxides, titanium oxides, carbon and silicates.

Abstract: The material silicon carbide possesses not just extraordinarily good thermal, chemical and mechanical properties, as a result of an adjustable porosity it is also possible to apply the material in conditions with difficult tribological relationships. As the porosity influences not only the friction between two workpieces, but also the rigidity of a material, a careful selection of pore diameter, number of pores per unit volume of material and the distribution of the pores in the material is necessary. According to the invention, with a porosity of the sintered silicon carbide body of 2 to 12 vol. %, comprised of non-communicating closed pores, evenly distributed in the material, the pores are spherical and have a nominal diameter of from 10 ?m to 48 ?m.

Abstract: The friction heat generated between both sliding pairs and friction pairs has to be swiftly dissipated in older to maintain a lubricant film or ensure constant coefficients of friction. The invention consequently relates to metal-ceramic composites for friction/sliding uses, which are characterized by basic compositions containing 30 to 75 percent by volume of one or several metallic phases, preferably aluminum and the alloys thereof, and 25 to 70 percent by volume of one or several non-metallic inorganic component/s as ceramic materials, preferably silicon carbide, aluminum oxide, titanium oxide, and silicates.

Abstract: A method for increasing the wear-resistance of a work piece involves connecting the work piece to a non-formable core material having a greater hardness than that of the work piece material. In order to improve the connection while simultaneously reducing the costs, the core material is connected in a form-fitting manner to the work piece by means of cold extrusion or hot extrusion of the work piece material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of producing a flat slide valve with incorporation of at least one inlet disk in a housing or in at least one element of a housing, wherein the inlet disk is joined to the housing or to at least one element of the housing by forcelocking, formlocking and/or bonding. The invention further provides a flat slide valve having at least one sealing disk, in which at least one of the sealing disks is incorporated into an element of the flat slide valve.

Abstract: The invention relates to a composite body in which a ceramic component and a metal component are bonded to one another by internal soldering. The internal soldering is effected with soldering composition in a recess (2) within a component (1) of the one material in which there is arranged a component (3) of the other material which is shaped to fit accurately. The recess (2) is, at at least one end-face opening, surrounded by a chamfer (5) having an angle .phi. smaller than 35.degree. C., while the wetting angle .beta. between the soldering composition and the plane of the component surface in which the recess is located is smaller than 40.degree..

Abstract: In the pump piston for axial piston pumps which comprises a ceramic piston and a drive member of metallic material the ceramic piston has an end face of which from 20 to 80% is in the form of a joint surface for a soldered connection to the drive member.

Abstract: A process and a device for hydrodynamic sound pulse generation in a liquid, n particular for sound pulse generation at sea for marine geophysics measurements.