Boron carbide is a strategic material, finding applications in nuclear industry, armour for
personnel and vehicle safety, rocket propellant, etc. Its high hardness makes it suitable for …

Boron carbide‑silicon carbide ceramic is a novel material as tribological structural
components. Compared with traditional tribo-components composed of single-phase boron …

Handbook of Nanomaterials for Industrial Applications explores the use of novel
nanomaterials in the industrial arena. The book covers nanomaterials and the techniques …

The previously reported model that accounts for the formation of the core-rim structure in
reaction-bonded boron carbide composites (RBBC) is expanded and validated by additional …

B 4 C–SiC intergranular/intragranular nanocomposites with high hardness and high
toughness were fabricated through mechanochemical processing with B 4 C, Si, and …

In order to improve the fracture toughness of B4C ceramics, B4C–TiB2 composite was
prepared by hot pressing using B4C, C and TiCl4 as starting materials. The precursor …

B4C–SiC composite ceramics are a very promising alternative to pure B4C ceramics and
pure SiC ceramics. B4C–SiC composite ceramics exhibit a combination of the desirable …

The particulars of phase and structure formation during reaction sintering of materials based
on boron carbide and silicon carbide are examined, and the actual technological aspects of …

Reaction bonded boron carbide composites are among the hardest ceramics with low
specific gravity values, a combination that makes them eminently suitable for light armour …

Porous boron-carbide billets containing different amounts of carbon (0–15 wt%) were
infiltrated with molten silicon to produce dense materials (ρ= 99.6% of theoretical) from …