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US 5,053,367 AGranted
Composite ceramic structures
AssigneeLanxide Technology Company, LP
InventorsMarc S. Newkirk, Danny R. White, Ratnesh K. Dwivedi
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Abstract
A self-supporting ceramic composite body produced by a method body which comprises preparing a polycrystalline material as the oxidation reaction product of a parent metal with a vapor-phase oxidant, comminuting the resulting material to a particulate, forming a permeable mass of said particulate as filler, and infiltrating said particulate with an oxidation reaction product of a parent metal with a vapor-phase oxidant, thereby forming said ceramic composite body.
Claims13
A self-supporting ceramic composite body comprising:
- a filler material which comprises an essentially single phase polycrystalline first oxidation reaction product characterized by having crystal lattice misalignments at oxidation reaction product crystallite grain boundaries which are less than crystal lattice misalignments which exist at interfaces between (1) neighboring oxidation reaction product crystallites and (2) at least one structural feature selected from the group consisting of metal channels and voids;
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- a second oxidation reaction product of a parent metal and an oxidant comprising a ceramic matrix which is three-dimensionally interconnected and embeds said filler material, said second oxidation reaction product further comprising about 1-40% by volume of an interconnected metal phase comprising constituents of said parent metal.
A self-supporting ceramic composite body comprising:
- a second particulate ceramic composite filler material which comprises a first filler material embedded by a first oxidation reaction product of a first parent metal and a first oxidant;
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- a second oxidation reaction product of a second parent metal and a second oxidant comprising a matrix which is three-dimensionally interconnected and embeds said second particulate ceramic composite filler material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.