Reactive melt infiltration

Compared with conventional techniques for fabricating ceramic-matrix composites, such as hot pressing (HP), reactive melt infiltration (RMI) and polymer impregnation and pyrolysis (PIP), CVI techniques have distinct advantages, which can be summarised as follows [8, 9] ... 

M. Singh, and D. R. Behrendt, Reactive Melt Infiltration of Silicon-Niobium Alloys in Micro-porous Carbons, J. Mater. Res., (9) 1701-1708,1994. 

FIGURE 35.13 Wood converted into ceramics by a reactive melt-infiltration process. 

Chakrabarti, O., Weisensel, L., and Sieber, H. (2005) Reactive melt infiltration processing of biomorphic Si-Mo-C ceramics from wood, J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 88(7), 1792. 

Reactive Melt Infiltration of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Ceramic Composites... 

REACTIVE MELT INFILTRATION OF C/UHTC COMPOSITES 3.1 C/SIC COMPOSITES DOPED WITH UHTC... 

Reactive melt infiltration (RMI) has been demonstrated to be an effective fabrication route for C/TiC ceramic matrix composite. Tong et al (Tong et al., 2012d) has fabricated a C/C-TiC composite by infiltrated a porous C/C preform with titanium melt. XRD analysis of the composite indicated that the phases in the composite were carbon and TiC. No detectable titanium peak was found in the XRD patterns. 

Einset, E. O. (1998). Analysis of reactive melt infiltration in the processing of ceramics and ceramic composites. Chemical Engineering Science, 53(5), 1027-1039. doi 10.1016/S0009-2509(97)00379-5. 

Jiang, S. Z., Xiong, X., Chen, Z. K., Xiao, R, Huang, B. Y. (2009). Influence factors of C/C-SiC dual matrix composites prepared by reactive melt infiltration. Materials Design, 30, 3738-3742. doi 10.1016/j.matdes.2009.02.013. 

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