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Volume 17, Issue 4, 2008
LETTER: PREPARATION AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF Fe3Al-MWNTs COMPOSITES
Laixue Pang*, Jinsheng Zhang, Jing Xu
Department of Civil Engineering, Shandong Jiaotong University, Jinana, 250023, PR China
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed, email: lxpang@sdjtu.edu.cn
Received 24 July 2008; accepted 26 August 2008
ABSTRACT
Multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWNT) reinforced iron aluminides (Fe3Al) intermetallic matrix composites have been prepared by a conventional (hot pressing) sintering method. Morphological, structural, compositional and mechanical properties investigations have been performed. Compressive testing shows that the composites still display high yield strength. The first results show that carbon nanotubes have been preserved in composite structure during the sintering process.
Keywords: carbon nanotubes composites, iron aluminides, hot pressing |
