Method for bonding ceramic materials
AssigneeCaldera Engineering, LC
InventorsJohn Roger Peterson, M. Robert Mock, Jeffrey C. Robison, Stephen R. Chipman, Grant Jay Brockbank, Michael R. Luque
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Abstract
Systems and methods for bonding ceramic materials are disclosed herein. In various embodiments, a process is provided comprising the steps of disposing a bonding material at least partially adjacent to a surface of a first silicon carbide component and at least partially adjacent to a surface of a second silicon carbide component, and bonding said first silicon carbide component to said second silicon carbide component by heating, wherein said bonding material comprises vanadium or titanium.
Claims21
A method of repairing a silicon carbide component comprising:
- disposing a bonding material at least partially adjacent to a surface of a first broken silicon carbide component and at least partially adjacent to a surface of a second broken silicon carbide component;
- bonding the first broken silicon carbide component to the second broken silicon carbide component by heating,
- wherein the bonding material comprises vanadium.
A segmented valve plug produced by a process comprising:
- disposing a first bonding material at least partially adjacent to a first surface of a first silicon carbide component and at least partially adjacent to a first surface of a second silicon carbide component;
- disposing a second bonding material at least partially adjacent to a second surface of the second silicon carbide component and at least partially adjacent to a first surface of a third silicon carbide component;
- bonding said first silicon carbide component to said second silicon carbide component and said second silicon carbide component to said third silicon carbide component by heating,
- wherein said first bonding material comprises vanadium and wherein said second bonding material comprises vanadium.
An angle valve comprising a top choke and bottom choke, produced by a process comprising:
- disposing a bonding material at least partially adjacent to a surface of said top choke and at least partially adjacent to a surface of said bottom choke;
- bonding said top choke to said bottom choke component by heating,
- wherein said bonding material comprises vanadium.
A nuclear reactor first wall for a fusion reactor produced by the process comprising:
- disposing a first bonding material at least partially adjacent to a first surface of a first silicon carbide component and at least partially adjacent to a first surface of a second silicon carbide component;
- disposing a second bonding material at least partially adjacent to a second surface of the second silicon carbide component and at least partially adjacent to a surface of a third silicon carbide component;
- bonding said first silicon carbide component to said second silicon carbide component and said second silicon carbide component to said third silicon carbide component by heating,
- wherein said first bonding material comprises vanadium and wherein said second bonding material comprises vanadium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.