The paper studies the thermophysical properties of a Cu-Ti-C-B composite produced by self-propagating high-temperature synthesis (SHS) an initial mixture copper, titanium, boron carbide (B4C), and carbon powders. matrix is supersaturated solid solution titanium in copper lattice with Cu4Ti nanosized particles homogeneously precipitated under cooling. microhardness 450 HV 0.1. Particles (TiC) di...

It is reported that the ductility and strength of a metal matrix composite could be concurrently improved if the reinforcing particles were of the size of nanometers and distributed uniformly. In this paper, we revealed that gas atomization solidification could effectively disperse TiB2 nanoparticles in the Al alloy matrix due to its fast cooling rate and the coherent orientation relationship b...

The synthesis of AlN and TiB2 by spark plasma sintering (SPS) and the effect of Nb2O5, Y2O3 and ZrO2 additions on the mechanical properties and densification of the produced composites is reported and discussed. After the SPS process, dense AlN and TiB2 composites with Nb2O5, Y2O3 and ZrO2 were successfully prepared. X-ray diffraction analysis showed that in the AlN composites, the addition of ...