Abstract
Due to the increasing industrial interest in TiB 2 the present work was accomplished to establish various solid-state properties of TiB 2 and to study the influence of sintering aids and different powder conditioning methods on the densification behaviour of TiB 2. The powders were hot-pressed in graphite dies with various loads up to 45 MPa and the vertex temperature of 1800 °C was held for 1 h. For the pure, non-activated powders theoretical densities between 97.4% and 99.5% were obtained at a pressure of 45 MPa. Hot-pressed activated powders at this pressure led to densities of up to 99.9%. The addition of 0.5 wt.% of various sintering aids also increased the densities. It is shown that pre-alloying TiB 2 with CrB 2 is to favour over mixing the powders. If TiB 2 and the sintering aid were mixed the best result was obtained with Cr 2N. Ceramics with high Young’s moduli and hardnesses were obtained. The Poisson’s ratios of two samples were 0.08 and 0.09, respectively, which are the lowest known values for a ceramic hard material. The heat conductivity of pure TiB 2 is approximately 1/4 of that of copper and the electrical resistivity is only 6 times higher than that of copper.
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