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Accession Number:
AD0610541
Title:
BASIC INVESTIGATIONS OF CERAMIC FIBRE-ALLOY COMPACTS
Corporate Author:
MATERIALS RESEARCH CORP YONKERS NY
Report Date:
1960-03-08
Abstract:
An investigation was made to devise techniques of producing composite materials of non-metallic fibers and metals and to test such composite materials with the view of evaluating the factors that affect their strength. The technique finally achieved involves the infiltration of coated fibers by molten metals that cannot penetrate the fiber coating. The necessity of having a coating on the fiber that prevents attack by the molten metal but which promotes wetting of the fibers by the molten metal was shown by the results of tests. Two coatings are especially useful, namely nickel and molybdenum. Both these metals do not tend to attack silica or more refractory oxides. Hence, they are compatible with most non-metallic fibers including glass fibers. The metals can be deposited on the fibers from the gas phase by thermal decomposition of the metal carbonyls.
Descriptive Note:
Final rept. for 1 Feb 1959-31 Jan 1960
Pages:
0024
Distribution Statement:
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
Contract Number:
AF 49(638)-572
File Size:
0.97MB
