Shear anisotropy： Tuning high temperature metal hexaborides from soft to extremely hard  

作　　者：Yanchun Zhou Fuzhi Dai Huimin Xiang Bin Liu Zhihai Feng 

机构地区：[1]Science and Technology on Advanced Functional Composite Laboratory,Aerospace Research Institute of Material & Processing Technology, Beijing 100076,China [2]School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China

出　　处：《Journal of Materials Science & Technology》2017年第11期1371-1377,共7页材料科学技术（英文版）

基　　金：pupported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. U1435206 and 51672064;Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission under Grant Nos. Z151100003315012 and D16110000241600

摘　　要：Easy machining into sharp lending edge, nose tip and complex shape components plays a pivotal role in the application of ultrahigh temperature ceramics in hypersonic vehicles, wherein low and controllable hardness is a necessary parameter to ensure the easy machinability. However, the mechanism that driving the hardness of metal hexaborides is not clear. Here, using a combination of the empirical hardness model for polycrystalline materials and density functional theory investigation, the hardness dependence on shear anisotropic factors of high temperature metal hexaborides has been established. It has come to light that through controlling the shear anisotropic factors the hardness of polycrystalline metal hexaborides can be tailored from soft and ductile to extremely hard and brittle, which is underpinned by the degree of chemical bonding anisotropy, i.e., the difference of B-B bond within the B;octahedron and that connecting the B;octahedra.Easy machining into sharp lending edge, nose tip and complex shape components plays a pivotal role in the application of ultrahigh temperature ceramics in hypersonic vehicles, wherein low and controllable hardness is a necessary parameter to ensure the easy machinability. However, the mechanism that driving the hardness of metal hexaborides is not clear. Here, using a combination of the empirical hardness model for polycrystalline materials and density functional theory investigation, the hardness dependence on shear anisotropic factors of high temperature metal hexaborides has been established. It has come to light that through controlling the shear anisotropic factors the hardness of polycrystalline metal hexaborides can be tailored from soft and ductile to extremely hard and brittle, which is underpinned by the degree of chemical bonding anisotropy, i.e., the difference of B-B bond within the B_6 octahedron and that connecting the B_6 octahedra.

关 键 词：Microhardness Electronic structure Elastic constant Borides Structural ceramics 

分 类 号：TB30[一般工业技术—材料科学与工程]