B 4 C has characteristics of low density, good strength, good wear resistance, exceptional
hardness, high elastic modulus and good chemical inertness at room temperature …

Toughened, super-hard B 4 C triplex-particulate composites were densified by spark plasma
sintering with MoSi 2 additives (5, 10, and 15 vol.%) at temperatures in the range 1750 …

Two fully-dense B 4 C–SiC composites were fabricated by spark-plasma sintering (SPS)
from B 4 C+ Si powders, one superhard (ie,∼ 28.7 (8) GPa) with abundant SiC by SPS of B …

With the motivation of developing B 4 C composites with superior wear resistance for
tribological applications, an ultrafine-grained (∼ 200− 300 nm) B 4 C composite was …

The lubricated sliding-wear resistance of a fine-grained B 4 C composite fabricated by
transient liquid-phase assisted spark-plasma sintering with Ti–Al additives at smooth …

The unlubricated sliding-wear behaviour of monolithic B 4 C ceramics with densification
degree from∼ 62% up to∼ 99.1%, and therefore hardness from∼ 7.9 GPa up to∼ 35.3 …

Pressureless sintered B4C and B4C-SiC ceramics were subjected to tests of dry sliding
against SiC balls at 5 N, 10 N and 20 N. The effects of load on the respective tribological …

The tribological properties of carbide ceramics (SiC, B4C–SiC, and B4C) sliding against SiC
balls in water at a normal load of 20 N in ambient conditions were investigated. Compared …

A critical comparison is made between the dry sliding-wear resistance of a B 4 C composite
fabricated by transient liquid-phase sintering with Ti-Al intermetallic additive and two …

A route based on the shaker milling of B and C powders followed by reactive spark plasma
sintering (SPS) of the resulting B+ C powder mixture is presented for the fabrication of exotic …