Synthesis of the W2C-WC Composite by Electro-Thermal Explosion Under Pressure

V.T. Telepa, M.I. Alymov, V.A. Shcherbakov, A.V. Shcherbakov, V.I. Vershinnikov show affiliations and emails
Received 07 November 2017; Accepted 08 February 2018;
This paper is written in Russian
Citation: V.T. Telepa, M.I. Alymov, V.A. Shcherbakov, A.V. Shcherbakov, V.I. Vershinnikov. Synthesis of the W2C-WC Composite by Electro-Thermal Explosion Under Pressure. Lett. Mater., 2018, 8(2) 119-122
BibTex   https://doi.org/10.22226/2410-3535-2018-2-119-122

Abstract

Synthesized nanostructured WC by the method of electro-thermal explosion under pressure with a temperature above 3500 at a pressure of 20 and 96 MPa.Abstract. The WC–W2C composite was synthesized by means electro thermal explosion (ETE) under pressure. The method comprises preparing a mixture of tungsten and soot powders, cold pressing of the pellet and heating it with Joule heat until an exothermic synthesis reaction occurs under quasi-static compression conditionsStimulation of the process by electric current makes it possible to synthesize the composite and to consolidate it to a minimum residual porosity. The purpose was to synthesis the WC–W2C composite by ETE process of a tungsten and carbon black powders mixture under pressure. It was shown that in the synthesis the initial reagents were completely converted into the equilibrium final product contained 77.1 wt.% of WC and 22.9 wt.% of W2C. With increasing compression pressure up to 96 MPa, the maximum heating temperature of the target product by a combined heat source reached 3300 K. This temperature was below the melting point of tungsten (3695 K) but above the melting point of the target product (WC and W2C). The microstructure formation of the WC–W2C composite prepared under the conditions of ETE was studied. It was shown that the composite contains W2C particles of needles. The length of the particles exceeds 10 μm, and their average thickness is 45–100 nm. The WC–W2C composite has a density of 12.5 g/cm3 and Vickers microhardness of 16 GPa. The results obtained showed the ETE under pressure is promising for production of superhard composites.

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