Synthesis of Al3BC from mechanically milled and spark plasma sintered Al-MgB2 composite materials Kubota, Masahiro and Cizek, Pavel 2008, Synthesis of Al3BC from mechanically milled and spark plasma sintered Al-MgB2 composite materials, Journal of alloys and compounds, vol. 457, no. 1-2, pp. 209-215, doi: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2007.03.027. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Synthesis of Al3BC from mechanically milled and spark plasma sintered Al-MgB2 composite materials Formatted title Synthesis of Al3BC from mechanically milled and spark plasma sintered Al-MgB2 composite materials Author(s) Kubota, Masahiro Cizek, Pavel orcid.org/0000-0003-0707-5737 Journal name Journal of alloys and compounds Volume number 457 Issue number 1-2 Start page 209 End page 215 Total pages 7 Publisher Elsevier Place of publication Amsterdam, Netherlands Publication date 2008-06 ISSN 0925-8388 1873-4669 Keyword(s) Al3BC Al–MgB2 mechanical milling spark plasma sintering powder metallurgy XRD EDXS solid-state reaction Summary The aluminium-rich ternary aluminium borocarbide, Al3BC was synthesised for the first time by solid-state reactions occurring during heat treatments after mechanical milling (MM) of pure aluminium with 15 or 50 at% MgB2 powder mixtures in the presence of the process control agent (PCA). The solid-state reactions in the Al–15 and 50 at% MgB2 composite materials occurred between the MMed powders and process control agent (PCA) after heating at 773–873 K for 24 h. The products of the solid-state reaction induced Al3BC, AlB2, γ-Al2O3 and spinel MgAl2O4. MM processing time and heating temperatures in the Al–15 and 50 at% MgB2 composite materials affected the selection of those intermetallic compounds. When MM processing time was increased for a given composition, the formation of the Al3BC compound started at lower heat treatment temperatures. However, when the amount of MgB2 was increased in the 4 h MM processing regime, the formation of the Al3BC compound during heating was suppressed. As a result of the solid-state reactions in MMed powders the hardness was observed to increase after heating at 573–873 K for 24 h. The fully dense bulk nano-composite materials have been successfully obtained through the combination of the MM and spark plasma sintering (SPS) processes for the 4 h or 8 h MMed powders of the Al–15 at% MgB2 composite materials sintered under an applied pressure of 49 MPa at 873 K for 1 h. Language eng DOI 10.1016/j.jallcom.2007.03.027 Field of Research 091207 Metals and Alloy Materials Socio Economic Objective 970109 Expanding Knowledge in Engineering HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2007, Elsevier B.V. Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30025777 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Centre for Material and Fibre Innovation GTP Research Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 25 Mar 2010, 15:00:30 EST Fri, 09 Apr 2010, 11:15:25 EST Fri, 09 Apr 2010, 11:18:01 EST Fri, 09 Apr 2010, 13:18:46 EST Wed, 14 Apr 2010, 11:04:26 EST Mon, 14 Nov 2011, 08:37:46 EST Mon, 16 Jun 2014, 15:03:14 EST Fri, 11 Jul 2014, 14:41:54 EST Fri, 11 Jul 2014, 14:42:41 EST Wed, 01 Oct 2014, 15:40:03 EST Thu, 11 Dec 2014, 16:33:15 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 24 times in TR Web of Science Cited 25 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1043 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 25 Mar 2010, 15:00:30 EST