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Bio-inspired structured boron carbide-boron nitride composite by reactive spark plasma sintering
This paper describes the prototyping of an approach to improve mechanical properties of conventional composites, mimicking biological material structured ‘hard’ core and ‘soft’ matrix system to efficiently transfer load stress, dissipate energy and resist cracking, by reactive spark plasma sintering (SPS) of boron carbide B4C carried out in a nitrogen N2gas environment
Sky Shumao Xie, Oleg Vasylkiv, V. Silberschmidt, Alfred I.Y. Tok
Virtual and Physical Prototyping, December 2013, Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/17452759.2013.862959