Materials Science Forum, Vol.396-4, 161-166, 2002
Aluminum based materials containing low melting and high melting metals produced by mechanical alloying with addition of metal oxides
Aluminum based materials containing both low melting and high melting metals were produced by mechanical alloying with addition of their oxides. As the oxides of low melting metals PbO and SnO2 were chosen, and WO3 and MoO3 as of high melting metals. Four materials were prepared as the test materials; Al-PbO-WO3, Al-PbO-MoO3, Al-SnO2-WO3 and Al-SnO2-MoO3. Mechanically alloyed powders were vacuum hot pressed and hot extruded. Microstructural evolutions and changes in constituent phases were studied by TEM, OM and XRD for the materials at various thermal stages. Diffraction lines from metallic Pb and Sri became detectable in the XRD patterns of the hot pressed materials, indicating decomposition of the oxides of low melting metals. Formation of the aluminide compounds of high melting metals was observed after heating of the consolidated materials at 873K forth. Thus, aluminum alloys of uniformly tine microstuructures containing both low melting metal and high melting metal were obtained. Because of the high hardness with high thermal stability and extremely fine dispersed particles of low melting metals, the consolidated materials are considered to exhibit high tribological performance.
Keywords:mechanical alloying;reaction milling;powder metallurgy;low melting metal;high melting metal;metal oxide