Graphite-fibre/carbide-matrix composites—II: Structure and electrical properties

MV Gelachov, AA Khvostunkov, VM Kiiko… - Composites science and …, 1994 - Elsevier
MV Gelachov, AA Khvostunkov, VM Kiiko, ST Mileiko
Composites science and technology, 1994Elsevier
The measurement of electrical properties of ceramic-matrix composites supplies data which
can be used directly with information about the structure of the composites. The structures of
graphite-fibre/carbide-matrix composites may be varied within large intervals of appropriate
parameters, as shown in a previous publication. A corresponding variety of behaviour
patterns of such materials in the electrical field had been expected and was actually
observed. The matrices of the composites were boron, niobium, and tantalum carbides, and …
Abstract
The measurement of electrical properties of ceramic-matrix composites supplies data which can be used directly with information about the structure of the composites. The structures of graphite-fibre/carbide-matrix composites may be varied within large intervals of appropriate parameters, as shown in a previous publication. A corresponding variety of behaviour patterns of such materials in the electrical field had been expected and was actually observed. The matrices of the composites were boron, niobium, and tantalum carbides, and the fibres were Kulon and VMN-4. The electrical conductivity of graphite-fibre/carbide-matrix composites has been determined, including that at cryogenic temperatures. A preliminary series of experiments gives the characteristics of piezo-resistance of the C/NbC composites. The experimental data yield a set of characteristics of the fibre, matrix, and composite structure. The conductivity characteristics of the graphite fibres and carbide matrices obtained in this way correspond to the expected ones. That also includes a type of conductivity behaviour revealed by the temperature dependence of the conductivity. Graphite fibre behaviour is of the metallic type, while boron carbide is a semiconductor-type material. The conductivity of pure matrices differs essentially from that of the matrices obtained as an extrapolation of the conductivity versus fibre volume fraction dependence to zero fibre content. Active diffusion of carbon from the fibre/matrix interface makes the stoichiometry of a carbide better and its conductivity higher. But a distinctive dependence of the piezo-resistance of the C/NbC composites on the fibre volume fraction may lead to an assumption about the possibility of the existence of another mode of influence of the carbon fibres on the conductive properties of carbides. Calculation of the ineffective length of a fibre (from the viewpoint of conductivity) yields an estimate of the conductivity of the interface. It is clearly connected to the structure of the interface.
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