TY - GEN
T1 - Influence of multi-walled carbon nanotube addition on the hardness of NiAl-CNT and NiAl3-CNT composites
AU - Awotunde, Mary Ajimegoh
AU - Ayodele, Olusoji Oluremi
AU - Adegbenjo, Adewale Oladapo
AU - Okoro, Moses
AU - Shongwe, Mxolisi Brendon
AU - Olubambi, Peter Apata
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Trans Tech Publications Ltd, Switzerland.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Nickel aluminides have shown great potential as high temperature structural materials. In this study, two classes of nickel aluminide were reinforced with 0.5wt% MWCNTs. Starting powders of nickel, aluminium and MWCNTs were ball milled together using a two stage milling regime and consolidated by spark plasma sintering. The effect of MWCNT reinforcement on the hardness of two classes of nickel aluminide was investigated. Microhardness values revealed a lack of dependence on densification for the NiAl3 composites. The microhardness values of NiAl-CNT reduced with MWCNT addition whereas microhardness values of NiAl3-CNT increased with MWCNT addition.
AB - Nickel aluminides have shown great potential as high temperature structural materials. In this study, two classes of nickel aluminide were reinforced with 0.5wt% MWCNTs. Starting powders of nickel, aluminium and MWCNTs were ball milled together using a two stage milling regime and consolidated by spark plasma sintering. The effect of MWCNT reinforcement on the hardness of two classes of nickel aluminide was investigated. Microhardness values revealed a lack of dependence on densification for the NiAl3 composites. The microhardness values of NiAl-CNT reduced with MWCNT addition whereas microhardness values of NiAl3-CNT increased with MWCNT addition.
KW - Ball milling
KW - Carbon nanotubes
KW - Densification
KW - Microhardness
KW - NiAl
KW - NiAl
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85079891414&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.821.54
DO - 10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.821.54
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85079891414
SN - 9783035714807
T3 - Key Engineering Materials
SP - 54
EP - 58
BT - Key Engineering Materials IX
A2 - Korsunsky, Alexander M.
PB - Trans Tech Publications Ltd
T2 - 9th International Conference on Key Engineering Materials, ICKEM 2019
Y2 - 29 March 2019 through 1 April 2019
ER -