What is the difference between silicon carbide ceramics and silicon nitride ceramics? What are the features and applications of each? This paper mainly introduces the difference between silicon carbide ceramics and silicon nitride ceramics.
Introduction of silicon nitride ceramics:
Silicon nitride is a new type of ceramic material, gray and white solid, with silicon carbide has a high degree of thermal stability and chemical stability, friction coefficient is only 0.1 ~ 0.2, equivalent to the lubrication of the metal surface, hardness second only to diamond and cubic boron nitride.
Its largest application area is also as a high-temperature structural ceramic material. Adding a small amount of aluminum oxide to silicon nitride can make a new type of ceramic, whose trade name is sialon. Ceron ceramics have been widely used in gas turbine blades, machine housings, engine components, rocket tail nozzles, bearings and cutting tools.
Properties: Inorganic materials that do not shrink during sintering, small coefficient of thermal expansion and extremely high temperature resistance, strength can be maintained to 1200C high temperature without falling, excellent thermal shock stability and amazing chemical corrosion resistance, can withstand almost all inorganic acids and less than 30% caustic soda solution, is a high-performance electrical insulation material.
Advantages: Good resistance to hot and cold shock performance, heating to more than 1000C in the air, rapid cooling and then rapid heating, will not break, compared with alumina is not easy to heat transfer.
Disadvantages: the fracture toughness coefficient is low, the mechanical strength in the ceramic is middle and lower, easy to crack and break.
Applications: high temperature bearings, mechanical sealing rings, pipelines and valves for electromagnetic pumps transporting liquid aluminum, etc.
Second, silicon carbide ceramics introduction:
Silicon carbide is commonly known as carborundum, generally made of silica and coke mixed by electric reaction. Silicon carbide is composed of sic, which is green, black and yellow due to impurities. In industry, it is divided into green silicon carbide and black silicon carbide according to color, and its sic content is ≥99% and 98.5%, respectively.
Silicon carbide is a kind of covalent bond compound, strong interatomic bonding force, high melting point, high hardness, high strength and low expansion, high thermal conductivity, high electrical conductivity, strengthening chemical stability, so it is a good refractory material. However, in an oxidizing atmosphere, silicon carbide is easily oxidized.
Performance: It has excellent mechanical properties at room temperature, high energy bending strength, excellent oxidation resistance, good corrosion resistance, high wear resistance and low friction coefficient, and its high temperature strength can be maintained to 1600C, which is the best high temperature strength material in ceramic materials, and the oxidation resistance is also the best in all non-oxide ceramics.
Advantages: Silicon carbide ceramics have excellent high temperature creep resistance, and has semiconductor properties, a small amount of impurities will show good electrical conductivity, processing can obtain mirror effect.
Disadvantages: The disadvantage of silicon carbide ceramics is that the fracture toughness is low, that is, the brittleness is larger.
Application: Widely used in large blast furnace lining; Mechanical sealing ring, metal burring removal tool, etc.
There are many differences between silicon carbide ceramics and silicon nitride ceramics, so far today, and the follow-up will continue to share!
2023 09/18