Hybrid ceramic particle reinforced 6061 and 5083 Al composite powders were prepared by the combination of twin rolling and stone mill crushing process, followed by consolidating processes of cold compaction, degassing and hot extrusion. The composite bar consists of lamellar structure of ceramic particle rich area and matrix area, in which the hybrid was decomposed into each TiC of about and particles of about in diameter. It also found that fine precipitates of about 30 nm were embedded in the matrix, which have grains of about 3 . Higher UTS was measured at the 5083 composite bar compared to the conventionally fabricated composite, due to again refinement effect by the rapid solidification. No particle was shown to form in the interface between the matrix and reinforcement, whereas carbon was diffused into the matrix.

The microstructures and properties of TiC dispersed nickel-base alloy were studied in this work. The alloy prepared by powder metallurgical processing was solution treated, 1st-aged at for 16 hours, and then 2nd-aged at for 4 hours. Microstucture of sintered specimen showed that TiC particles are uniformly dispersed in Ni base alloy. In the specimen aged at for 8 hours, the fine (Al,Ti) precipitates with round shape are observed and the very fine (Al,Ti) particles with round shape are precipitated in the specimen aged at for 4 hours. The presence of precipitates in TiC/Ni base alloy increased the hardness and wear resistance of the specimen. The hardness and wear resistance of the Ni-base with TiC are higher than those of conventional Ni-base superalloy X-750 because of dispersion strengthening of TiC particles. The hardness, transverse rupture strength and resistance of the specimen 2nd-aged at for 4 hours are higher than those of 1st-aged specimen due to ultrafine (Al,Ti) precipitates.

The effects of boron or manganese added as , Mn, , B on TiC-30vo1.% cermet sintered at 1380 and for 1 hour, were examined in relation with shrinkage, relative density, microstructure, lattice parameter, hardness and fracture toughness (). The results are summarized as follows: 1) The highest shrink-age showed about 30.5% in the specimen added BC and the maximum relative density was about 99% in the specimen added ; 2) The grains of TiC were grown during sintering and made the surrounding structure by adding boron and manganese. The largest grain size showed about in the specimen with boron sintered at ;3) The lattice parameter of TiC was about and about by adding other elements; 4) The highest hardness was about in the specimen with B4C; 5) The fracture toughness () showed about in the specimen added .

Micelle formation and adsorption at the Ti02 interface of a series of polystyrene-polythylene oxide(PS-PEO) block copolymer in aqueous solution was studied using fluorescence probing and small-angle X-ray methods. Further, the stability of aqueous Ti02 dispersion in the presence of copolymer was investigated by microelectrophoresis, optical density and sedimentation measurements. The dissolution of pyrene as fluorescent probe in aqueous surfactant solution leads to a slow decrease of the I1/I3 ratio, as the copolymer concentration increase; I1 and I3 are respectively the intensities of the first and third vibrionic peaks in the pyrene fluorescence emission. The behaviour was due to the characteristics of the copolymers and/or to the copolymer association efficiency in water. Moreover, the adsorption at the plateau level increases with decreasing PEO until chain length. The zeta potential of TiO2 particles decreases with increasing copolymer concentration and reaches a plateau value. Finally, stabilization using block copolymers was more effective with samples having higher weight fractions of PS block.

MoSi-TiC composite powders were fabricated by in-situ reaction through mechanical alloying. Also the monolithic MoSi as well as TiC were synthesiced by mechanical alloying for comparison. An abrupt increase of vial surface temperature was detected due to a sudden reaction between elemental powders during milling. The reaction time for synthesis of composite powders decreased with increasing the content of (Ti+C) powder. It was found that a significant decrease of Ti grain size was observed with increasing the milling time. And the synthesis reaction of MoSi-TiC composite powders were largely dependent on the reaction between Ti and C powders.

The pure Ti, Ni and carbon powders were reaction milled to synthesize the TiC-Ni based cermet powders with ultrafine microstructures. After milling, the ultrafine TiC or amorphous Ti-Ni phase was obtained, respectively, according to the milling condition. The effects of milling variables on the synthesizing behavior of the powders were investigated in detail. The sintered TiC-Ni based cermet of the reaction milled powders consisted of very fine TiC of 0.2~1.5m, as compared with that of a commercial cermet of 3~5m. This demonstrates the potenial of reaction milling as an effective processing route for the preparation of cermet materials.

금속기지 복합물은 구조용 재료로서 매우 우수한 성질을 지니고 있어 광범위하게 연구되어져 왔다. Al2O3와 SiC는 그들의 우수한 기계적 특성 때문에 일반적인 보강재로서 사용되어져 왔다. 그러나 이들 세라믹 보강재는 비싼 재조 비용 때문에 특별한 목적을 위해서만 한정되어 사용되어져 왔다. 본 연구에서는 우리는 Al 합금기지 복합물에서 SHS법에 의해 합성된 Al2O3-SiC 분말의 보강재로서의 응용 가능성을 살펴보았다. 또한 Al2O3단섬유를 Al기지 하이브리드 복합물에 적용하기 위하여 합성된 분말과 함께 첨가하였다. 25vol% 강화재의 복합물을 제조하기 위하여 용탕단조법을 사용하였다. 미세구조와 결정구조는 SEM, OM 그리고 XRD로 관찰하였고 압축시험과 마모시험으로 기계적인 성질들을 조사하였다.

본 연구는 티타늄과 활성탄소 원료분말을 반응밀링법에 의해 합성시, 밀링시간에 따른 Ti-TiC 복합재료의 미세조직과 기계적 성질에 미치는 TiC vol.% 및 열간압축성형온도의 영향에 관해 조사하였다. 티타늄과 활성 탄소 원료분말을 300시간 밀링 후 5μm이하의 미세한 구형의 Ti-TiC복합분말을 생성시킬 수 있었다. 반응밀링된 분말을 1000˚C이상에서 1시간동안 진공열간압축성형한 경우 이론밀도의 98%에 가까운 우수한 성형체를 얻었으며, TiC입자가 티타늄 기지 전반에 걸쳐 고르게 분산되어 Ti-TiC 복합재료의 기계적 특성을 향상시켰다. Ti-TiC복합재료의 고온안정성을 고찰하기 위해 600˚C등온열처리한 결과 80시간까지는 경도의 큰 변화없이 열적으로 안정하였다. Ti-20vol%TiC 복합재료를 700˚C에서 고온압축시험을 한 경우 330MPa의 높은 항복강도값을 나타내었다.

In 1957, the first magnetic disk drive compatible with a movable head was introduced as an external file memory device for computer system. Since then, magnetic disks have been improved by increasing the recording density, which has brought about the development of a high performance thin film magnetic head. The thin film magnetic head has a magnetic circuit on a ceramic substrate using IC technology. The physical property of the substrate material is very important because it influences the tribology of head/disk interface and also manufacturing process of the head. -TiC ceramics, so called ALTIC, is known to be one of the best substrate materials which satisfies this property requirement. Even though the head is not in direct contact with the disk, frequent instantaneous contacts are unavoidable due to its high rotating speed and the close gap between them. This may cause damage in the magnetic recording media and, thus, it is very important that the magnetic head has a good wear resistance. -TiC ceramics has an excellent tribological property in head/disk interface. Manufacturing process of thin film head is similar to that of IC, which requires extremely smooth and flat surface of the substrate. The substrate must be readily sliced into the heads without chipping. -TiC ceramics has excellent machineability and mechanical properties. -TiC ceramics was first developed at Nippon Tungsten Co. as cutting tool materials in 1968, which was further developed to be used as the substrate materials for thin film head in collaboration with Sumitomo Special Metals Co., Ltd. in 1981. Today, we supply more than 60% of the substrates for thin film head market in the world. In this paper, we would like to present the sintering process of -TiC ceramics and its property in detail.