The invention provides a preparation method of a
fiber reinforced Gd2O3-Al2O3
aerogel composite material with heat insulation and
neutron shielding functions. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, preparing a
composite material by using a
sol-
gel method, a vacuum impregnation method and a normal-pressure
drying method, uniformly mixing and stirring absolute ethyl
alcohol and
ultrapure water, then gradually adding aluminum
chloride hexahydrate and
gadolinium chloride hexahydrate into the
composite material, and after the solution is uniformly stirred, slowly adding epoxypropane and uniformly mixing; performing vacuum impregnation on the
mixed solution into
mullite fibers; after aging and
solvent replacement are performed on the compound, normal-pressure
drying is performed, and finally high-temperature heat treatment is performed to obtain the composite shielding material. A one-step mixing method is adopted in the preparation process of the composite material, meanwhile, no catalyst needs to be added, the cost is low, the material surface is smooth, the thickness is controllable, the
apparent density ranges from 0.28 g / cm < 3 > to 0.41 g / cm < 3 >, the
temperature resistance under the
air atmosphere reaches 1000 DEG C, the minimum room-temperature heat
conductivity is 0.041 W / m.K, the maximum thermal
neutron shielding rate can reach 84.353%, and the
mechanical strength is high.