Ceramic based lightweight composites with extreme dynamic strength

Abstract

On the basis of several years experiments in development of high performance technical ceramics and in investigation of hetero-modulus and hetero-viscous materials and ceramic matrix composites the authors successfully developed a new family of ceramic reinforced lightweight composites with extreme dynamic strength. To obtain these lightweight composites first the matrix materials were developed from different sort of sintered ceramics with high porosity and after the prepared items were re-sintered using reactive sintering methods or were impregnated with nanoparticles of Si3N4, SiAlON ceramics or light metal alloys having excellent mechanical strength and properties. Where it was necessary the pores and material structures of ceramic matrix materials anchored excellent wetting for a wide range of metal alloys, so it was possible to develop several types of ceramic reinforced hetero-modulus light metal composites with extreme dynamic strength of different density. In this work the authors present the c-Si3N4 diamond particles reinforced corundum matrix composite shield plate structures and some of the specially developed low density ceramic foams and high porosity ceramic matrix materials for lightweight metallic composites. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.