The invention relates to a
pressureless sintering preparation method for
boron carbide ceramic, and
coarse particle powder with the particle size larger than 2 micrometers is taken as raw materials. The method comprises the following steps that 70-80 wt % of
boron carbide powder (D50>=2 micrometers), 4-8 wt% of carbon
powder and 0.7-2 wt% of
yttrium oxide powder are put into a
ball mill mixing container,
ball mill slurrying is performed after binding agents, dispersing agents and deionized water are added, and the
solid phase content of obtained
slurry is 25-45 wt%; the obtained
slurry is prepared into granulating powder with a
spray drying granulating
machine; the granulating powder is pressed into green bodies by adopting a dry-pressing molding technology or isostatic cool pressing molding technology at 100-200 MPa; the green bodies are placed in a
vacuum furnace, a vacuum or normal pressure
sintering mode is adopted, heat preservation is performed for 0.5-5 h at the temperature of 2000 DEG C-2300 DEG C,
sintering is completed, and then the
boron carbide ceramic is obtained. According to the
pressureless sintering preparation method for the
boron carbide ceramic, due to the fact that the
coarse particle boron carbide powder which is low in cost is adopted as the raw materials and the
pressureless sintering technology capable of achieving scale production is adopted, the preparation cost of the
boron carbide ceramic can be greatly lowered, and therefore the method is suitable for the fields of
nuclear power,
semiconductor equipment, armor protection and the like.