This paper describes the effects of sintering conditions such as amount of TiB
2 and temperature on the mechanical properties of TiN-TiB
2 compacts, and describes the hot hardness, the fracture toughness Ktc and the resistance of oxidation of TiN-TiB
2 compacts. The results were as follows:
1. TiN-TiB
2 compacts, which contained 30-60 wt% TiB
2, have high density and high transverse rupture strength. It is thought that the reasons of the high transverse rupture strength are reduced by the restraining of TiN grain growth and the high density.
2. TiN-30%TiB
2 compacts have the transverse rupture strength of 700 MN/m
2, the porosity of 0.34 vol%, the Vickers hardness of 1800 kg/mm
2 at R.T. and of 990 kg/mm
2 at 1233 K, and the fracture toughness K
1c of 3 MPa⋅m
1/2.
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