Abstract: This invention relates to a method for producing a self-supporting body comprising the steps of:(a) forming a permeable mass comprising at least one solid-phase oxidant selected from the group consisting of the halogens, sulphur and its compounds, metals, metal oxides other than the silicates, and metal nitrides other than those of boron and silicon;(b) orienting said permeable mass and a source of said parent metal relative to each other so that formation of said oxidation reaction product will occur into said permeable mass;(c) heating said source of parent metal to a temperature above the melting point of said parent metal but below the melting point of said oxidation reaction product to form a body of molten parent metal;(d) reacting said body of molten parent metal with said at least one solid-phase oxidant at said temperature to permit said oxidant at said temperature to permit said oxidation reaction product to form; and(e) maintaining at least a portion of said at least one oxidation reaction product

Abstract: A process of forming a sintered article for powder metal comprising blending carbon and ferro alloys and lubricant with compressible elemental iron powder, pressing said blended mixture to form sintering said article, and then high temperature sintering said article in a reducing atmosphere to produce a sintered article having a high density from a single compression.

Abstract: Supported polycrystalline compacts having improved shear strength, impact, and fracture toughness properties, and methods for making the same under high temperature/high pressure (HT/HP) processing conditions. The method involves a HT/HP apparatus formed of a generally cylindrical reaction cell assembly having an inner chamber of predefined axial and radial extents and containing pressure transmitting medium, and a charge assembly having axial and radial surfaces and formed of at least one sub-assembly comprising a mass of crystalline particles adjacent a metal carbide support layer. The charge assembly is disposed within the chamber of the reaction cell assembly, with the pressure transmitting medium being interposed between the axial and radial surfaces of the charge assembly and the extents of the reaction cell chamber to define an axial pressure transmitting medium thickness, L.sub.h, and a radial pressure transmitting medium thickness, L.sub.r, the ratio of which, L.sub.h /L.sub.

Abstract: A method wherein one or more metal salts of at least one iron group metal containing organic groups are dissolved and complex bound in at least one polar solvent with at least one complex former comprising functional groups in the form of OH or NR.sub.3, (RH.dbd.H or alkyl). Hard constituent powder and, optionally, a soluble carbon source are added to the solution. The solvent is evaporated and the remaining powder is heat treated in an inert and/or reducing atmosphere. As a result, coated hard constituent powder is obtained which after addition of a pressing agent can be compacted and sintered according to standard practice to a body containing hard constituents in a binder phase.

Abstract: A method for preparing deagglomerated fibres and/or particles and for providing the fibres and/or particles with a substantially uniform protective coating, the fibres and/or particles being of a material selected from the group consisting of carbides oxides, nitrides, silicides, borides, metals and graphite, including SiC, TiC, ZrC, WC, NbC, AlN, TiN, BN, Si.sub.3 N.sub.4, MgO, Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, SiO.sub.2, ZrO.sub.2, Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3, Y.sub.2 O.sub.3, steel, tungsten, molybdenum and carbon, the method comprising (a) preparing an inorganic colloid sol, and (b) mixing the fibres and/or particles are deagglomerated and substantially homogeneously distributed. The fibres and/or particles, e.g. SiC whiskers provided with an aluminum oxide coating by treatment with an aluminum hydroxide-based sol, are used for the preparation of metal matrix composite materials, e.g. based on aluminum or an aluminum alloy.

Abstract: This invention relates generally to a novel method for forming a self-supporting body. Specifically, the formed self-supporting body has a higher volume percent of metallic constituent relative to a body formed by similar techniques. A first porous self-supporting body is formed by reactively infiltrating a molten parent metal into a bed or mass containing a boron donor material and a carbon donor material (e.g., boron carbide) and/or a boron donor material and a nitrogen material (e.g., boron nitride) and, optionally, one or more inert fillers. Additionally, powdered parent metal may be admixed with a mass to be reactively infiltrated to form additional porosity therein. The porous self-supporting body which is formed by the reactive infiltration process according to this invention should contain at least some interconnected porosity which is capable of being filled in a subsequent step with additional metal, thus increasing the volume percent of parent metal in the body at the expense of porosity.

Abstract: Processes are disclosed in which cemented carbide parts, having a wide range of initial carbon levels, and a wide range of sizes, can be carburized to a critical carbon level, and then slow cooled at various rates, to yield stratified enriched zones in the near-surface region of said parts. The enriched zones are characterized by the cobalt content decreasing, and the microhardness increasing, continuously through the enriched zones, and approaching values characteristic of the interior. The combination of stratified enriched zones in the near surface region and the 6% binder interior provide the toughness and deformation resistance required for heavy roughing applications.A wide variety of cemented carbides, having different compositions and WC grain sizes, can also be carburized and slow cooled using the same techniques to yield stratified binder enriched zones having the same hardness profiles and cobalt content profiles as described above.

Abstract: A compacted, single phase or multiphase composite article. Particles for use in the compacted article are produced by providing a precursor compound containing at least one or at least two metals and a coordinating ligand. The compound is heated to remove the coordinating ligand therefrom and increase the surface area thereof. It may then be reacted so that at least one metal forms a metal-containing compound. The particles may be consolidated to form a compacted article, and for this purpose may be used in combination with graphite or diamonds. The metal-containing compound may be a nonmetallic compound including carbides, nitrides and carbonitrides of a refractory metal, such as tungsten. The metal-containing compound may be dispersed in a metal matrix, such as iron, nickel or cobalt. The dispersed nonmetallic compound particles are no larger than about 0.1 micron in particle size and have a volume fraction greater than about 0.15 within the metal matrix.

Abstract: An improved metal matrix composite which, in a preferred embodiment disclosed herein, utilizes boron carbide as the ceramic additive to a base material metal. The metal matrix composite of the present invention begins with the preparation of the boron carbide powder by particle size selection in a jet mill. The resulting powder and metal powder are then mixed by blending of powder of all the various elements such as by means of a conventional blender to uniformly mix powdered substances and avoid stratification and settling. After the particles have been sufficiently mixed, they are degassed and then placed into a die and then into a cylindrical container where the particulates are subjected to extremely high pressures transforming the elements into a solid ingot. It is from these ingots that the extrusion tubes or other articles of manufacture may then be made.

Abstract: A process for preparing ceramic composite comprising blending TiC particulates, Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 particulates and nickle aluminide and consolidating the mixture at a temperature and pressure sufficient to produce a densified ceramic composite having fracture toughness equal to or greater than 7 MPa m.sup.1/2, a hardness equal to or greater than 18 GPa.

Abstract: A process of forming a sintered article of powder metal comprising: selecting elemental iron powder; determining the desired properties of said sintered article and selecting, a quantity of carbon, and ferro alloy from the group of ferro manganese, ferro chromium, ferro molybdenum, ferro vanadium, ferro silicon and ferro boron; grinding said ferro alloy to a mean particle size of approximately 8 to 12 microns; introducing a lubricant while blending the carbon, ferro alloy, with said elemental iron powder; pressing the mixture to form the article; and then high temperature sintering the article at a temperature between 1,250.degree. C. and 1,350.degree. C. in a neutral or reducing atmosphere; so as to produce the sintered article of powdered metal; and includes the product formed thereby.

Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing a bladed ring for drum-shaped rotors of turbomachinery, especially rotors for axial compressors of gas turbine engines. The bladed ring is to be manufactured by hot isostatic pressing (HIP) and the fiber rings are formed in a metallic powder material for the bladed ring arranged in a circumferential direction. The fiber rings are bonded with spacing therebetween. The fiber rings are reinforced by fibers embedded in a metal matrix. The bladed ring prefabricated in this fashion by HIP is machined down to its required dimensions.

Abstract: A secondary hardening type high temperature wear-resistant sintered alloy body comprising 0.4 to 15 wt. % of at least one species of metal carbide forming element which is selected from the group consisting of W, Mo, V, Ti, Nb, Ta and B; 5 to 35 wt. % of at least one species of austenite forming element which is selected from the group consisting of Ni, Co, Cu, and Cr; 0.2 to 1.2 wt. % of C; and 0.04 to 0.2 wt. % of Al consisting essentially the remainder of Fe, wherein the alloy body contains an austenite phase which is capable of martensitic transformation.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an axisymmetric component made of a composite material having a metallic matrix is described in which at least one ceramic fiber and at least one wire of the metal which is to constitute the matrix are wound simultaneously side by side to form a number of layers on a suitably shaped mandrel and in such a manner as to ensure absence of contact between the fiber turns of each individual layer and between the fiber turns of adjacent layers, and the formed layers are subsequently subjected to hot isostatic compaction. The ceramic fiber may be of the silicon carbide type and the metal wire forming the matrix may be of titanium or titanium-alloy.

Abstract: The invention provides aluminum sintered alloys with high dimensional accuracy and high density which are superior in mechanical and physical characteristics as well as wear resistance, and a method of producing such alloys not by plastic working but by atmospheric sintering with high economy. Rapidly solidified aluminum alloy powder resulting from solidifying aluminum alloy molten metal containing 0.4 to 4.0% by weight of Mg at a solidification rate of 10.sup.2 .degree. C./sec or more is press molded in the cold, after annealing in the temperature range of 250 to 450.degree. C. if necessary, and then the molded product is sintered by generating nitrogen compounds on the powder surface at atmospheric pressure with a nitrogen partial pressure of 0.8 atm or more and a steam partial pressure of 0.01 atm or less in which a reducing gas component has been added as a nitrogen-combining acceleration gas component by 0.01 atm or more. Thus, a nitrogen-combined aluminum sintered alloy containing 0.4 to 4.

Abstract: A fully dense ceramic-metal body including 40-88 v/o of an oxide hard phase of, in v/o of the body, 4-88 v/o M-aluminum binary oxides, where the binary oxide has a C-type rare earth, garnet, .beta.-MAl.sub.11 O.sub.18, or perovskite crystal structure, and M is a lanthanide or indium, and 0-79 v/o .alpha.-alumina; about 10-50 v/o of a hard refractory carbide, nitride, or boride as a reinforcing phase; and about 2-10 v/o of a dispersed metal phase combining Ni and Al mostly segregated at triple points of the microstructure. The preferred metal phase contains a substantial amount of the Ni.sub.3 Al ordered crystal structure. In the preferred body, the reinforcing phase is silicon carbide partially incorporated into the oxide grains, and bridges the grain boundaries. The body including a segregated metal phase is produced by densifying a mixture of the hard phase components and the metal component, with the metal component being present in the starting formulation as Ni powder and Al powder.

Abstract: The present invention relates to cemented carbide bodies preferably for rock drilling and mineral cutting. Due to the fact that the bodies are built up of a core of eta-phase-containing cemented carbide surrounded by a surface zone free of eta-phase with low Co-content in the surface zone and successively increasing Co-content to a maximum in the outer part of the eta-phase-core they have obtained an increase in toughness and life at practical use.

Abstract: Complex-shaped parts can be produced from powders, for example metal-matrix composites, by injection molding using a mixture of the powders with a suitable binder. The binder must be removed from the powder mixture before the final thermal treatment of the so-called green part. The present invention proposes to remove the binder by surrounding a cast part with a layer of a particulate material and to subject the cast part to isostatic pressure through the surrounding layer which can thus act as an absorbent. The surrounding layer is removed after the isostatic pressing and the part can be subjected to sintering. The method is suitable for example for aluminum-ceramic powder mixtures.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing a sintered body comprising one or more hard constituents and a binder phase based on cobalt, nickel and/or iron by powder metallurgical methods milling, pressing and sintering of powders. At least part of the binderphase powder consists of non-agglomerated particles of spheroidal morphology having dimensions of 0.1 to 20 .mu.m.

Abstract: This invention relates generally to a novel method of manufacturing a composite body, such as a ZrB.sub.2 --ZrC--Zr (optional) composite body, by utilizing a post-treatment process and to the novel products made thereby. More particularly, the invention relates to a method of modifying a composite body comprising one or more boron-containing compounds (e.g., a boride or a boride and a carbide) which has been made by the reactive infiltration of a molten parent metal into a bed or mass containing boron carbide, and optionally one or more inert fillers, to form the body.

Abstract: A low alloy sintered steel contains at least 0.15 percent by weight and less than 0.8 percent by weight of carbon. Its matrix is formed by a tempered martensite containing prior austenite crystal grains of not more than 15 .mu.m in mean grain size. Pores and nonmetallic inclusions contained in the matrix are not more than 50 .mu.m in maximum diameter, and the density of the low alloy sintered steel is at least 96 percent of theoretical density. A raw material powder for forming the low alloy sintered steel includes iron alloy powder which is prepared by an atomizing process, and is treated with a dry mill in an inert gas atmosphere or in the atmospheric air. Thus, dislocations are introduced into the raw material powder, and nonmetallic inclusions contained in the raw material powder are pulverized to be not more than 50 .mu.m in maximum diameter. Not only static characteristics but also dynamic characteristics, such as fatigue strength, of the low alloy sintered steel are improved.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a sintered titanium-based carbonitride alloy for milling and turning where the hard constituents are based on Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo and/or W and the binder phase based on Co and/or Ni. The structure comprises 10-50% by volume hard constituent grains with core-rim-structure with a mean grain size for the cores of 2-8 .mu.m in a more fine-grained matrix with a mean grain size of the hard constituents of <1 .mu.m and where said mean grain size of the coarse hard constituents grains is >1.5 .mu.m, preferably >2 .mu.m, larger than the mean grain size for the grains in the matrix. The coarse grains can be Ti(C,N), (Ti,Ta)C, (Ti,Ta)(C,N) and/or (Ti,Ta,V)(C,N).

Abstract: Disclosed is a hard alloy with high hardness, high abrasion resistance, high corrosion resistance and high rigidity, which is excellent in performance in use for tools. The hard alloy contains more than 80% by weight of WC with less than 2 .mu.m of average particle size, more than 0.2% by weight and less than 2% by weight of Co and the remaining part of one or more metals, carbides, nitrides and carbonitrides of the metals in the IVa, Va and VIa families in the periodic table, such as 2.0 to 7.0% by weight of one or more of Mo and Mo.sub.2 C, and the alloy contains Co.sub.x W.sub.y C.sub.z in the sintered product. By the addition of Mo or Mo.sub.2 C and VC the growth of particles in the hard phase is inhibited and at the same time the wettability of WC--Co is increased.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a part made of a composite material having a metallic matrix, for example of titanium or a titanium based alloy, comprises depositing the matrix material on a continuous length of reinforcing fiber, for example of the SiC type, to produce a coating of a predetermined thickness, winding the thus coated fiber onto a former of suitable shape until a desired thickness is obtained, and then heating and isostatically compacting the wound coated fiber to produce the required part.

Abstract: Fatigue crack growth-resistant articles are made from powder metal or cast and wrought gamma prime precipitation strengthened nickel-base superalloy material, wherein a relatively high predetermined minimum strain rate, .epsilon..sub.min, is employed during hot working at or near the alloy's recrystallization temperature; or alternatively a relatively high strain level, .epsilon..sub.min, is employed during cold or warm working at temperatures below the alloy's recrystallization temperature. The worked articles are characterized by a uniform fine grain size, and grains which coarsen uniformly after heating at the supersolvus solutioning temperature, thereby alleviating non-uniform grain growth within the material.

Abstract: The present invention addresses problems in the diamond saw blade and segment art. One aspect of the invention comprises a method for making handleable, strong, discrete, metal-clad abrasive pellets. This method comprises the steps of:(a) spraying onto a bed of gas-fluidized abrasive particles a slurry of metallic powder, a binding agent, and a volatile solvent until substantially all the abrasive particles are coated with at least about 20 wt-% of the metallic powder;(b) recovering the metal powder coated abrasive particles; and(c) heating said recovered coated particles under conditions to form a sintered continuous metal coating enveloping said abrasive particles. The resulting sintered metal-clad pellets form another aspect of the invention.

Abstract: An iron-based powder for making wear-resisting and heat-resisting components by compacting and sintering consists of, in addition to Fe, 3-15% by weight of Mo and/or 3-20% by weight of W, the total amount of Mo+W being in the range off 3-20% by weight; 0.2-1.0% by weight of P; 0.5-1.5% by weight of C. A component is powder-metallurgically made of this iron-based powder by compacting the powder into the desired shape and sintering the compact at a temperature below about 1150.degree. C.

Abstract: Vane material, vane and method of producing a vane to be used in a compressor using a substitute freon, improving the wear resistance thereof. The vane material has a composition consisting of by weight: 1.0-2.5% of C; not more than 1.5% of Si; not more than 1.0% of Mn; 3-6% of Cr; one or two of not more than 20% W and not more than 12% Mo where "W+2Mo" being 15-28%; 3.5-10% of one or two of V and Nb; and the balance of Fe and incidental impurities. Carbides are uniformly dispersed in the matrix thereof where their average diameter does not exceed 1.5 .mu.m and the maximum diameter thereof does not exceed 6 .mu.m. A method of producing a vane is also disclosed, in which an atomized powder having the composition as described is compacted and it is then subjected to hot working, or to hot working and cold working.

Abstract: A hard sintered component of a cemented carbide or a stellite alloy having a complex three-dimensional shape and a small hole or the like and the high strength originally provided by the used material for making the component without any secondary working, is formed by injection molding a compact molding die having an inner mold surface roughness R.sub.max of not more than 3 .mu.m. Where a core pin is used the outer surface of the pin has a surface roughness R.sub.max of not more than 3 .mu.m. The compact is then sintered. The hard sintered component is composed of a cemented carbide or a stellite alloy. In such a hard sintered component, the surface of a complex three-dimensional shape such as a disc portion or a thin portion, or the inner surface of a small hole, is defined by a sintered surface which has a surface roughness R.sub.max of not more than 4 .mu.m.

Abstract: The crack-resistant compound sleeve roll having a shell portion made of a sintered alloy and a core portion made of steel is produced by (a) charging an alloy powder consisting essentially, by weight, of 1.0-3.5% of C, 2% or less of Si, 2% or less of Mn, 10% or less of Cr, 3.0-15.0% of W, 2.0-10.0% of Mo and 1.0-15.0% of V, the balance being substantially Fe and inevitable impurities, into a metal capsule disposed around a roll core; (b) after evacuation and sealing, subjecting the alloy powder to a HIP (hot isostatic pressing) treatment at 1100.degree.-1300.degree. C. to form a shell portion; (c) after removing the metal capsule, subjecting the sintered shell portion to a heat treatment having hardening at 1140.degree.-1220.degree. C. and annealing at 540.degree.-620.degree. C.; and (d) chamfering edge portions of the roll on both axial ends thereof such that a boundary of the shell portion and the core portion exists in a chamfered surface.

Abstract: A watch exterior part is formed of cemented carbide or stellite alloy, and has a three-dimensionally curved as-sintered surface or a small hole with an as-sintered interior peripheral surface, or has a three-dimensionally curved polished surface obtained by polishing an as-sintered surface. The watch exterior part is manufactured by a method in which organic binder is milled into a material powder, and a molded body obtained by injection molding is subjected to a binder removing process and then sintered. By the manufacturing method, a watch exterior part formed of cemented carbide or stellite alloy has a high strength and a complicated configuration such as a three-dimensional curved surface and a small hole, without applying secondary machining operations such as discharge operations.

Abstract: This invention relates generally to a novel method of manufacturing a composite body. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for modifying the resultant properties of a composite body, by, for example, minimizing the amount of porosity present in the composite body. Moreover, additives, whether used alone or in combination, (1) can be admixed with the permeable mass, (2) can be mixed or alloyed with the parent metal, (3) can be placed at an interface between the parent metal and the preform or mass of filler material, (4) or any combination of the aforementioned methods, to modify properties of the resultant composite body. Particularly, additives such as VC, NbC, WC, W.sub.2 B.sub.5, TaC, ZrC, ZrB.sub.2, SiB.sub.6, SiC, MgO, Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, ZrO.sub.2, CeO.sub.2, Y.sub.2 O.sub.3, La.sub.2 O.sub.3, MgAl.sub.2 O.sub.4, HfO.sub.2, ZrSiO.sub.4, Yb.sub.2 O.sub.3 and Mo.sub.2 B.sub.

Abstract: A process for producing a cutting tool includes the steps of subjecting a sintered body to a nitrogen gas pressure treatment conducted under a pressure ranging between 0.2 and 10 MPa and at a temperature between 900.degree. C. to 1300.degree. C. for a period of at least 0.5 hours, evacuating a protective gas at a pressure between 10 Pa and 20 kPa at temperatures between 1000.degree. C. and 1350.degree. C. over more than 0.5 hours before the sintered body is cooled under a pressure between 10 Pa and 0.1 Pa, thereby forming a binding layer and treating a metal base body with CVD or PVD or plasma activated CVD for coating the metal base body with the binding layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to cemented carbide bodies preferably for wear demanding rock drilling and mineral cutting. The bodies are built up of a core of eta-phase-containing cemented carbide surrounded by a surface zone free of eta-phase where the binder phase content in the outer pan of said zone is lower than the nominal and, in addition, constant or near constant, and the binder phase content in the inner part of the eta-phase free zone closer to the eta-phase core is higher than the nominal. According to the method of the invention, bodies comprising evenly distributed eta-phase are subjected to a partly carburizing treatment with a carbon activity, a.sub.c, close to 1.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for making an aluminum silicon carbide composite material in strip form. The process comprises blending a powdered aluminum matrix material and a powdered silicon carbide material, roll compacting the blended powdered materials in an inert atmosphere to form a green strip having a first thickness, and directly hot working the blended and roll compacted materials to bond the aluminum matrix material particles and the silicon carbide particles and to form a thin strip material having a desired thickness.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a shaped article from a powdered precursor, wherein the components of the powdered precursor are subjected to a self-propagating high-temperature synthesis (SHS) reaction and are consolidated essentially simultaneously. The shaped article requires essentially no machining after manufacture.

Abstract: To prepare an aluminum matrix particle composite alloy, a molten metal, mainly composed of aluminum, containing ceramic particles is disintegrated by atomization, to prepare atomized powder. The atomized powder is mechanically ground/reflocculated with a ball mill or the like, to prepare mechanically ground/reflocculated powder containing ceramic particles of not more than 8 .mu.m in maximum diameter and not more than 3 .mu.m in mean particle diameter. The mechanically ground/reflocculated powder is then warm-formed/solidified. Alternatively, an aluminum alloy molten metal containing dispersed particles is disintegrated by atomization, and thereafter the powder containing the dispersed particles of not more than 20 .mu.m in mean particle diameter is warm-formed/solidified by powder forging. Thus, it is possible to obtain an aluminum matrix particle composite alloy in which extra-fine ceramic particles are homogeneously distributed without segregation.

Abstract: A method for producing an article including a refractory compound by infiltrating a preform with a liquid infiltrant and initiating a reaction between the preform and the liquid infiltrant to establish a reaction front which propagates in a direction opposite to the direction of flow of the liquid infiltrant is provided, as are articles prepared according to this method.

Abstract: A filter membrane and a process for making the filter membrane are provided. The filter membrane comprises a metal substrate having a filtering layer thereon comprising sintered ultra-fine particles of metal or ceramic compounds. The filtering layer preferably has an average pore size of from about 30 nanometers to about 200 nanometers. The filter membranes can withstand pressure drops of up to about 0.6 MPa and are useful for a variety of filtering applications.

Abstract: A composite electrode for electrochemical processing having improved high temperature properties, and a process for making the electrode by combustion synthesis. A composition from which the electrode is made by combustion synthesis comprises from about 4% to about 90% by weight of a particulate or fibrous combustible mixture which, when ignited, is capable of forming an interconnected network of a ceramic or metal-ceramic composite, and from about 10% to about 60% by weight of a particulate or fibrous filler material capable of providing the electrode with improved oxidation resistance and maintenance of adequate electrical conductivity at temperatures above 1000.degree. C. The filler material is molybdenum silicide, silicon carbide, titanium carbide, boron carbide, boron nitride, zirconium boride, cerium oxide, cerium oxyfluoride, or mixtures thereof.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for manufacturing sintered parts, which uses as a debinder solvent a substance harmless to the human body and which can enhance the strength of an injection-molded product.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a sintered body by a) forming a slurry comprising a powder mixture, a dispersant providing steric stabilization for the powders and an organic solvent with a possible addition of one or more soluble polymers; b) transferring the slurry into a mold; and c) changing the temperature sufficient to cause gelation of the sterically stabilized suspension to form a green body. The method also includes d) removing the green body from the mold; e) transferring the green body to a chamber where the gelation temperature can be maintained and the pressure decreased to facilitate removal of the solvent to form a dried body; f) heating the body for a time sufficient to substantially remove the dispersant from the body and; g) sintering the body. The sintered body can be an insert for metal cutting tools.

Abstract: A sintered titanium-based carbonitride alloy contains hard constituents based on, in addition to Ti, W and/or Mo, one or more of the metals Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta or Cr in 5-30% binder phase based on Cobalt and/or nickel. The content of tungsten and/or molybdenum, preferably molybdenum in the binder phase is >1.5 times higher than in the rim and >3.5 times higher than in the core of adjacent hard constituent grains. The alloy is produced by a particular method.

Abstract: A spray powder for thermal spraying onto a substrate to provide a hardfacing, and a part with such hardfacing on the surface thereof, that is corrosion-resistant and abrasion-resistant. The spray powder comprises between about 75 to about 90 weight percent of tungsten carbide. The powder further comprises between about 10 and 25 weight percent of a nickel-based alloy, which includes Mo, and optionally, includes one or more of Fe, C, Cr, Mn, Co, Si and W.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for fabricating a metal aluminide composite which comprises providing a metal aluminide, such as titanium aluminide, or a titanium aluminide alloy, and a reinforcing fiber material, such as silicon carbide fiber, and placing an interlayer or diffusion barrier layer in the form of a metal selected from the group consisting of silver, copper and gold, and alloys thereof, between the metal aluminide and the reinforcing fiber material. The interlayer metal can be a foil of the metal or in the form of a coating, such as a silver coating, on the reinforcing fiber material. The metal aluminide, the reinforcing fiber material, and the metal interlayer, e.g., in the form of a packet of a plurality of alternate layers of metal aluminide alloy and reinforcing fiber material, each layer being separated by the metal interlayer, is pressed and heated at an elevated temperature, e.g., ranging from about 900.degree. to about 1200.degree. C., at which diffusion bonding occurs.

Abstract: There is now provided a method of manufacturing a sintered body of titanium-based carbonitride alloy comprising hard constituents in 5-25% binder phase where the hard constituents contain, in addition to Ti, one or more of the metals V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo or W and the binder phase is based on cobalt and/or nickel by powder metallurgical methods, i.e., milling, pressing and sintering. The composition of the hard constituents is:0.88<a<0.96;0.04<b<0.08;0.ltoreq.c<0.04;0.ltoreq.d<0.04;0.60<f<0.73;0.80<x<0.90; and0.31<h<0.40.and the overall composition of the hard constituents phase is expressed by the formula:(Ti.sub.a,Ta.sub.b,Nb.sub.c,V.sub.d).sub.x (Mo.sub.e,W.sub.f).sub.y (C.sub.g,N.sub.h).sub.z.

Abstract: A process for producing a ceramic-metal composite body exhibiting binder enrichment and improved fracture toughness at its surface. The process involves forming a shaped body from a homogeneous mixture of: (a) about 2-15 w/o Co or about 2-12 w/o Ni binder, (b) excess carbon, (c) optionally, 0 to less than 5.0 v/o B-1 carbides, and (d) remainder tungsten carbide. The mixture contains sufficient total carbon to result in an ASTM carbon porosity rating of C06 to C08 at the core of the densified body. The weight ratio of excess carbon to binder is about 0.05:1 to 0.037:1. The shaped body is densified in a vacuum or inert atmosphere at or above about 1300.degree. C. and slow cooled, at least to about 25.degree. below the eutectic temperature. Alternatively, the sintered body may be cooled to a holding temperature at or slightly above the eutectic temperature, isothermally held for at least 1/2 hr, and further cooled to ambient.

Abstract: Method of forming and a new class of tool steel macrocomposites having improved thermal fatigue resistance and improved wear resistance, formed of tool steel powder mixed with carbide powder under hot isostatic pressing.

Abstract: This invention relates generally to a novel method of preparing self-supporting bodies, and to novel products made thereby. In its more specific aspects, this invention relates to a method of producing self-supporting bodies comprising one or more boron-containing compounds, e.g., a boride or a boride and a carbide, by reactive infiltration of a molten parent metal actinide into (1) a bed or mass containing boron carbide and, optionally, (2) at least one of a boron donor material (i.e., a boron-containing material) and a carbon donor material (i.e., a carbon-containing material), (3) a bed or mass comprising a mixture of a boron donor material and a carbon donor material and, optionally, (4) one or more inert fillers in any of the above masses, to form the body.

Abstract: Neutron absorbing refractory B.sub.4 C-Gd and Gd.sub.2 O.sub.3 -Gd cermets, B.sub.4 C-Gd and Gd.sub.2 O.sub.3 -Gd metal-matrix composites, and B.sub.4 C-Gd.sub.2 O.sub.3 ceramic-ceramic composites can be manufactured by applying fundamental thermodynamic and kinetic guidelines as processing principals.Three steps are involved in the fabrication of these new compositions of matter. First, the starting materials are consolidated into a compacted porous green body. Next, the green body is densified using the appropriate method depending on the class of material sought: cermet, metal-matrix composite, or ceramic-ceramic composite. Finally, either during the densification process or by subsequent heat treatment, new phase evolution is obtained via interfacial chemical reactions occurring in the microstructures.The existence of a new phase has been identified in B.sub.4 C-Gd and B.sub.4 C-Gd.sub.2 O.sub.3 composites.