Fiber-structure Tungsten Copper Contact (1/2)

Tungsten copper is a psudoalloy, which is composed of two kinds of immiscible and has a great difference in physical and chemical properties metals. Since it has both advantages of W and Cu (high hardness, high strength, excellent corrosion resistance of W, excellent electrical and thermal conductivity of Cu) so that it has a broad application prospect in high-pressure, high-load vacuum circuit breaker and microelectronics fields. Due to the special nature of tungsten copper material itself, it is basically prepared by PM (Powder Metallurgy) process, but also for this reason that makes the structure and properties of tungsten copper alloy products subject to certain restrictions.

In order to make the organizational structure of tungsten copper contact more reasonable, the relevant researchers made many attempts in recent years, such as PIM (Powder Injection Molding), functionally graded materials, nano-structure and W-Cu tungsten fiber reinforced composite structure. Here we focused on the preparation of the fibrous structure of tungsten copper contacts and analyze the factors that affect performance and ablative infiltrated. The use of vacuum infiltration process, and select netting lamination to tungsten as weft, warp knit copper-dimensional net. Under vacuum condition, liquid copper has better liquidity and there is no air in the pores, which is more conducive to liquid copper fill-in. Tungsten braided copper mesh (copper as the infiltration time of induction of copper) and copper billets, and then the two stacked together in a vacuum sintering furnace infiltration, and sintered copper above the melting point (about 1300 ℃).

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