CORRELATION BETWEEN THE OXIDATION-STATE OF ALPHA-SIC AND ITS WETTABILITY WITH NONREACTIVE (SN) OR REACTIVE (NI) METALLIC COMPONENTS AND THEIR BINARY SI-ALLOYS
A. Tsoga et al., CORRELATION BETWEEN THE OXIDATION-STATE OF ALPHA-SIC AND ITS WETTABILITY WITH NONREACTIVE (SN) OR REACTIVE (NI) METALLIC COMPONENTS AND THEIR BINARY SI-ALLOYS, Acta materialia, 45(9), 1997, pp. 3515-3525
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Wetting experiments were performed on alpha-SiC/Sn (505 K < T < 1873 K
) and alpha-SiC/Ni (T = 1773 K) in an argon atmosphere with 700 vpm mo
isture. Wettability and reactivity of alpha-SiC with both metallic com
ponents were affected by the oxidation state of alpha-SiC. Under the e
xperimental conditions, passive to active transition of alpha-SiC occu
rs at similar to 1600 K. Up to 1600 K, wettability between liquid Sn a
nd alpha-SiC is governed by a passive SiO2-film overlaying alpha-SiC,
while at higher temperatures an increased carbon surface concentration
, leads to higher contact angle values. Under the present experimental
conditions the start of reactivity between Ni and alpha-SiC coincides
with the passive to active transition of alpha-SiC. The presence of s
ilicon at the ceramic-metal interface, in the form of alloying element
into both Sn or Ni, was found to decrease the temperature of passive
to active transition of alpha-SiC, to improve the wettability for both
alpha-SiC/Sn and alpha-SiC/Ni, and to suppress the interfacial reacti
on between Ni and alpha-SiC. (C) 1997 Acta Metallurgica Inc.