3133 results about "Fracture toughness" patented technology

Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to heated substrate supports having a protective coating thereon. The protective coating is formed from yttrium oxide at a molar concentration ranging from about 50 mole percent to about 75 mole percent; zirconium oxide at a molar concentration ranging from about 10 mole percent to about 30 mole percent; and at least one other component, selected from the group consisting of aluminum oxide, hafnium oxide, scandium oxide, neodymium oxide, niobium oxide, samarium oxide, ytterbium oxide, erbium oxide, cerium oxide, and combinations thereof, at a molar concentration ranging from about 10 mole percent to about 30 mole percent. The alloying of yttrium oxide with a compatible oxide improves wear resistance, flexural strength, and fracture toughness of the protective coating, relative to pure yttrium oxide.

A porous composite material useful in semiconductor device manufacturing, in which the diameter (or characteristic dimension) of the pores and the pore size distribution (PSD) is controlled in a nanoscale manner and which exhibits improved cohesive strength (or equivalently, improved fracture toughness or reduced brittleness), and increased resistance to water degradation of properties such as stress-corrosion cracking, Cu ingress, and other critical properties is provided. The porous composite material is fabricating utilizing at least one bifunctional organic porogen as a precursor compound

Methods of making an article having at least one toughened region and at least one untoughened region involving providing a material, applying a toughening agent to a portion of the material, shaping the material to produce a preform, applying an untoughened resin to the preform, and curing the preform having the applied untoughened resin to produce the at least one toughened region and the at least one untoughened region wherein the toughened region comprises a toughened resin having a fracture toughness of at least about 1.0 MPa-m^1/2.

A process for milling a solid substrate in the milling chamber of a dispersion or media mill in the presence of a two or more compositions of milling media bodies is disclosed wherein all milling media bodies contribute to the grinding of the solid substrate and wherein at least one composition of media bodies provides fragments of milling media bodies that are retained with the milled solid substrate particles in the form of a synergetic commixture produced in the milling process. More specifically, a process is disclosed for preparing a synergetic commixture comprising small particles of a solid substrate and small particulates of a first material of a desired size comprising the steps of (a) providing to the milling chamber of a media mill a contents comprising a pre-mix of a solid substrate, a fluid carrier, a plurality of milling bodies of a first material having a fracture toughness Kc1, and a plurality of milling bodies of a second material having a fracture toughness Kc2; (b) operating the media mill to grind the solid substrate and degrade at least a portion of the milling bodies of first material to produce a dispersion in the fluid carrier comprising a synergetic commixture of small particulates of the first material and small particles of the solid substrate having a desired size equal to or less than a size Sp; (c) separating the dispersion from any milling bodies and solid substrate particles having a size larger than Sp; and (d) optionally removing the fluid carrier from the dispersion to form a synergetic commixture free of fluid and comprising the particles and the small particulates, wherein KC2 is greater than KC1.

The present invention provides a room-temperature curable, reinforced thermosetting epoxy resin composition. The composition includes an epoxy resin first component, and an epoxy resin hardener second component. The epoxy resin component includes an epoxy resin, and may further include an inorganic and/or organic filler component, such as a structural reinforcement component. The epoxy resin hardener component includes an amine-based hardener, and may further include an inorganic and/or organic filler component. Cured reaction products of the composition demonstrate at about room temperature an adhesive strength of at least about 6500 psi, such as about 8000 to about 10000, and a fracture toughness of at least about 10 in-lbs/in.sup.2, such as about 20 to about 35 in-lbs/in.sup.2. In addition, the cured reaction products of the composition demonstrate a creep resistance at about room temperature at least about 6000 psi of at least about 1 hour. After mixing together the first and second components and at about room temperature, the composition has a pot life of at least about 3 hours at about room temperature, and after application onto a surface of a substrate has a slump resistance at about 30 minutes of less than about 0.5 inches.

A laminated sheet includes a surface layer having an optical surface that is of fire-polished quality and a core layer having a higher modulus than the surface layer to increase an overall stiffness or fracture toughness of the laminated sheet.

The invention discloses a graphene-based barrier composite material, which has high barrier and mechanical performance and is prepared by using grapheme sheets which are two-dimension nano materials as an intensifier and uniformly dispersing the grapheme sheets in a polyolefin polymer by chemical crosslinking. The preparation method of the barrier composite material comprises: 1, functionally modifying the surface of the graphene oxide by using coupling agent to graft active functional groups on the surface of the graphene oxide, and reducing the modified graphene oxide into grapheme; and 2, uniformly dispersing the modified graphene into solution of the polyolefin to perform crosslinking under the action of an initiator to obtain the nano composite material. In the invention, the raw material is low in cost and readily available; the operation is easy, the process is simple, the repeatability is high, the graphene can well disperse in the polyolefin, and the prepared graphene-based barrier composite material has high polar and nonpolar solvent barrier performance and is obviously improved in tensile strength and fracture toughness.

The present invention provides a coating inorganic fiber toughened MAX phase ceramic composite material and a preparation method thereof. The composite material adopts a MAX phase ceramic material as a matrix and adopts coating inorganic fibers as a toughening phase, wherein the coating inorganic fiber content is 0.5-90% (by volume), and the coating inorganic fibers are completely dispersed in the matrix and are inorganic fibers with the surface coated with the coating. Compared with the composite material in the prior art, the composite material of the present invention has the following characteristics that: the interface reaction between the inorganic fibers and the MAX phase ceramic can be effectively inhibited, the thermal expansion coefficient and elasticity modulus matching degree between the inorganic fibers and the MAX phase ceramic can be effective regulated, the effective improvement of the fracture toughness and the high temperature resistance of the MAX phase ceramic composite material can be achieved, the problems of high brittleness and insufficient use reliability of the MAX phase ceramic can be fundamentally solved, and the coating inorganic fiber toughened MAX phase ceramic composite material has potential application prospects in the high technology fields of civil use, aviation, aerospace, nuclear industry and the like, and is especially for the fission and fusion reactor nuclear power plant inner wall structure material.

Methods of forming dielectric films comprising Si, C, O and H atoms (SiCOH) or Si, C, N and H atoms (SiCHN) that have improved cohesive strength (or equivalently, improved fracture toughness or reduced brittleness), and increased resistance to water degradation of properties such as stress-corrosion cracking, Cu ingress, and other critical properties are provided. Electronic structures including the above materials are also included herein.

A ceramic composite made by compacting a starting powder blend. The composite includes between about 50 volume percent and about 99 volume percent of a ceramic matrix; and between about 1 volume percent and about 50 volume percent as-processed silicon carbide whiskers. The ceramic composite having a fracture toughness (K_IC) of greater than about 4.0 MPam^1/2. The ceramic has a silicon carbide whisker density as measured in whiskers per square millimeter equal to or less than about 1500 times the volume percent of silicon carbide whiskers, but in a density sufficient for the ceramic composite to have the fracture toughness.

The invention discloses high-strength lithium disilicate glass ceramic and a preparation method thereof. The glass ceramic comprises the following chemical components in percentage by weight: 59-80% of SiO2, 10-18% of Li2O, 0.1-14% of MgO, 0-15% of Al2O3, 1-8% of P2O5, 0-5% of Na2O, 0-7% of CaO, 0-9% of K2O, 0.5-8% of stabilizer and 0-10% of colorant, wherein the stabilizer is selected from one or more of ZrO2, SrO, BaO and Y2O3, and the colorant is selected from one or more of Eu2O3, CeO<+>, Tb4O7, La2O3, Ta2O5, MnO2 and Fe2O3. The lithium disilicate glass ceramic is a material which contains a residual glass phase, a Li2Si2O5 principal crystalline phase and a small quantity of Li3PO1, quartz, cristobalite, zirconium oxide or magnesium-aluminum silicate phase and is prepared by controlling nucleation and crystallization processes after carrying out heat treatment on lithium disilicate matrix glass. The lithium disilicate glass ceramic is very high in bending strength and fracture toughness and favorable in translucence and chemical stability and can serve as a full-ceramic dental material applied to the field of dental restoration.

An aluminum-copper-magnesium alloy having ancillary additions of lithium. The alloy composition includes from about 3 to about 5 weight percent Cu, from about 0.5 to about 2 weight percent Mg, and from about 0.01 to about 0.9 weight percent Li. The combined amount of Cu and Mg is maintained below a solubility limit of the aluminum alloy. The alloys possess improved combinations of fracture toughness and strength, and also exhibit good fatigue crack growth resistance.

The invention relates glass ceramic articles suitable for use as electronic device housing or enclosures which comprise a glass-ceramic material. Particularly, a glass-ceramic article housing/enclosure comprising a glass-ceramic material exhibiting both radio and microwave frequency transparency, as defined by a loss tangent of less than 0.5 and at a frequency range of between 15 MHz to 3.0 GHz, a fracture toughness of greater than 1.5 MPam 1/2 , an equibiaxial flexural strength (ROR strength) of greater than 100 MPa, a Knoop hardness of at least 400 kg/mm2, a thermal conductivity of less than 4 W/m DEG C and a porosity of less than 0.1 %.

A 7XXX series aluminum alloy having reduced quench sensitivity suitable for use in aerospace structural components, such as integral wing spars, ribs, extrusions and forgings comprises, in weight %: 6 to 10 Zn, 1.3 to 1.9 Mg, 1.4 to 2.2 Cu, wherein Mg<=Cu+0.3, one or more of 0 to 0.4 Zr, up to 0.4 Sc, up to 0.2 Hf, up to 0.4 Cr, up to 1.0 Mn and the balance Al plus incidental additions including Si, Fe, Ti and the like plus impurities. By controlling the Mg content to 1.3 to 1.7 wt. %, limiting Mg<=Cu+0.3 and 6.5<=Zn<=8.5, the alloy provides significantly improved combined strength and fracture toughness in heavy gauges. For example, in a six-inch thick plate there is provided a combination of about 75 ksi quarter-plane tensile yield strength (L) with a fracture toughness (L-T) of about 33 ksi{square root}in which progresses by artificial aging/tempering to a combined strength and fracture toughness of about 67 ksi tensile yield strength (L) and a fracture toughness (L-T) of about 40 ksi{square root}in. The alloy product possesses equally attractive combinations of strength and fracture toughness when intentionally quenched slowly following solution heat treatment so as to lessen dimensional distortion, particularly in shapes of varying cross section.

Disclosed herein is a method of fabricating a stent assembly comprising radially expanding a polymeric tube to an optimal degree of radial expansion; fabricating a stent from the expanded polymeric tube; and crimping the stent onto a catheter assembly, wherein the temperature of the stent during crimping is an optimal crimping temperature, wherein the optimal degree of radial expansion and the optimal crimping temperature correspond to an optimal fracture toughness exhibited by the crimped stent upon its deployment as a function of degree of radial expansion and crimping temperature.

A fiber-reinforced ceramic matrix composite material exhibiting increased matrix cracking strength and fracture toughness is produced by sequentially depositing a plurality of 5-500 nanometer-thick layers of a primary ceramic matrix material phase periodically separated by 1-100 nanometer-thick intermediate layers of a secondary matrix material phase onto the reinforcing fibers upon their consolidation. The resultant nanolayered matrix enhances the resistance to the onset of matrix cracking, thus increasing the useful design strength of the ceramic matrix composite material. The nanolayered microstructure of the matrix constituent also provides a unique resistance to matrix crack propagation. Through extensive inter-layer matrix fracture, debonding and slip, internal matrix microcracks are effectively diverted and/or blunted prior to their approach towards the reinforcing fiber, thus increasing the apparent toughness of the matrix constituent. This unique toughening mechanism serves to dampen energetic co-planar macrocrack propagation typically observed in conventionally manufactured ceramic matrix composites wherein matrix cracks are usually deflected at the fiber/matrix interphase region.

The invention pertains to a processing insert comprised of a body with a hard metal or ceramic substrate and with a multilayer coating and the manufacture of same. In order to have a highly fracture-tough insert with a relatively thick coating, it is suggested that an external layer (protective layer) be applied according to the CVD process, said layer being either a monophase or multiphase layer of Zr-based or Hf-based carbide nitride or carbonitride, and presenting internal compressive stresses. The layer(s) underlying the external layer, also applied according to the CVD process, also present(s), without any exception, internal compressive stresses, while at least one of them, maybe the only one laying under the protective layer is made of TiN, TiC and/or TiCN. The coating is applied according to a continuous CVD process at temperatures of 900° C. to 1100° C. and involves a specific modification of the gas compounds.

The present invention provides materials suitable for use as secondary coatings of optical fibers. According to one embodiment of the invention, a curable composition includes an oligomer and at least one monomer, which when cured forms a cured polymeric material having a Young's modulus of at least about 1200 MPa, and a fracture toughness of at least about 0.7 MPa·m^1/2. According to another embodiment of the invention, a coated optical fiber includes an optical fiber; a primary coating encapsulating the optical fiber; and a secondary coating encapsulating the primary coating, the secondary coating having a Young's modulus of at least about 1200 MPa, and a fracture toughness of at least about 0.7 MPa·m^1/2.

Earth-boring tools for drilling subterranean formations include a particle-matrix composite material comprising a plurality of silicon carbide particles dispersed throughout a matrix material, such as, for example, an aluminum or aluminum-based alloy. In some embodiments, the silicon carbide particles comprise an ABC—SiC material. Methods of manufacturing such tools include providing a plurality of silicon carbide particles within a matrix material. Optionally, the silicon carbide particles may comprise ABC—SiC material, and the ABC—SiC material may be toughened to increase a fracture toughness exhibited by the ABC—SiC material. In some methods, at least one of an infiltration process and a powder compaction and consolidation process may be employed.

The invention provides a hot rolled steel plate with excellent low-temperature toughness for a thick submerged pipeline and a production method of the hot rolled steel plate. The hot rolled steel plate comprises the following chemical components by weight percentage: 0.02%-0.07% of C, 0.15%-0.40% of Si, 1.0%-1.70% of Mn, less than or equal to 0.020% of P, less than or equal to 0.003% of S, less than or equal to 0.06% of Nb, less than or equal to 0.025% of Ti, less than or equal to 0.06% of V, less than or equal to 0.20% of Mo, less than or equal to 0.25% of Cu, 0.10%-0.30% of Ni, less than orequal to 0.25% of Cr, less than or equal to 0.008% of N, 0.010%-0.040% of Al, more than or equal to 2 of Al/N and the rest Fe and inevitable impurities. According to the steel for the submerged pipeline with the thickness being over 28mm, disclosed by the invention, the transversal and longitudinal bending strength can reach over 480MPa or 510MPa, the transversal and longitudinal tensile strengthcan reach over 560MPa or 600 MPa, the transversal impact toughness at the temperature of 60 DEG below zero is larger than or equal to 400 J, the transversal DWTT (Drop-Weight Tear Test) shearing areaat the temperature of 25 DEG C below zero is larger than or equal to 85%, simultaneously, the corrosion resistant of the steel plate is excellent, and the result of a 96-hour HIC (Hydrogen Induced Cracking) test conforms to the requirements of the standard 0284 of the NACE (National Association of Corrosion Engineers). The hot rolled steel plate is suitable to be as a raw material for manufacturing a pipeline for submerged oil and gas transmission.