Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2016-03-22T00:17:59Z No. of bitstreams: 1 GilbertoMelchiors_TESE.pdf: 68131058 bytes, checksum: 5c5b863430fd078b972416d9cc3742d6 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-03-22T21:40:15Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 GilbertoMelchiors_TESE.pdf: 68131058 bytes, checksum: 5c5b863430fd078b972416d9cc3742d6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-22T21:40:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GilbertoMelchiors_TESE.pdf: 68131058 bytes, checksum: 5c5b863430fd078b972416d9cc3742d6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-26 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - CAPES / As pseudoligas Nb-Cu apresentam-se como potenciais substitutas ?s ligas de um sistema conhecido e j? aplicado comercialmente, como as de W-Cu, usadas em aplica??es como dissipadores de calor, contatos el?tricos e bobinas para gera??o de altos campos magn?ticos. Por tratar-se de um sistema imisc?vel, onde h? insolubilidade m?tua e baixa molhabilidade do Cu l?quido na superf?cie do Nb, a rota de processamento empregada neste trabalho foi a da Metalurgia do P?. Duas composi??es de Nb foram utilizadas, com adi??es de 10% e 20% em peso de Cu, e tempos de 20, 30 e 40 horas, para a moagem de alta energia dos p?s de partida. A evolu??o da moagem dos p?s ? apresentada atrav?s de diversas t?cnicas de caracteriza??o, como a particulometria por difra??o a LASER, DRX, MEV, EDS, DSC, dilatometria, MET e an?lise qu?mica. Ap?s a moagem, partes das cargas de p?s foram submetidas ao tratamento t?rmico de recozimento. O processo empregado para a consolida??o das amostras foi a compacta??o a quente, a qual foi aplicada tanto em algumas amostras de p?s mo?dos, quanto nos p?s recozidos. Tratamentos t?rmicos posteriores foram realizados nas amostras, nas temperaturas de 1000?C (em fase s?lida) e 1100?C (em fase l?quida do Cu). Todos os conjuntos de amostras consolidadas e tamb?m os dois conjuntos das tratadas termicamente foram analisados por DRX, MEV, EDS, densidade e microdureza Vickers. Paralelamente, outras amostras de p?s de Nb com 10% e 20% em peso de Cu obtidas por simples mistura mec?nica, foram consolidadas, tratadas termicamente e caracterizadas com as mesmas t?cnicas aplicadas nas demais, e os resultados foram comparados entre eles. Apesar da dificuldade de consolida??o e densifica??o das duas pseudoligas do sistema Nb-Cu deste estudo, na rota que passa pela MAE, foram obtidas amostras com densidades em torno de 90% da densidade te?rica. E, na rota de processamento das amostras que foram apenas misturadas, os valores chegaram at? 97%. Por isso, nesse trabalho, tamb?m s?o enfatizados os processos que tornaram poss?veis os resultados encontrados. / The Nb-Cu pseudoalloys present themselves as potential substitutes for the alloys from a well known system and already commercially applied, as the W-Cu alloys, used in applications such as heat sinks, electrical contacts and coils for the generation of high magnetic fields. Because it is an immiscible system, where there is mutual insolubility and low wettability of the liquid Cu on the Nb surface, the processing route used in this work was the Powder Metallurgy. Two Nb alloys were used, with additions of 10% and 20% in weight of Cu, and times of 20, 30 and 40 hours for the high energy milling of the starting powders. The milling evolution of the powders is presented through the characterization techniques, such as the LASER diffraction for particle size, XRD, SEM, EDS, DSC, dilatometry, TEM and chemical analysis. After the milling, portions of the loads were submitted to the annealing heat treatment. The process used for the samples consolidation was the hot pressing, which has been applied both on some milled powders samples, as on the annealed powders. Subsequent heat treatments were performed in the samples at temperatures of 1000?C (solid phase) and 1100?C (in the Cu liquid phase). All sets of consolidated samples, and also the two sets of the heat treated, were analyzed by XRD, SEM, EDS, density and Vickers microhardness. Moreover, other Nb powder samples with 10% and 20% in weight of Cu obtained by simple mechanical mixing, were consolidated, thermally treated and characterized with the same techniques applied to the others, and the results were compared among themselves. Despite the difficulty of consolidation and densification of the two pseudoalloys of the Nb-Cu system of this study, on the route that passes through the HEM, samples were obtained with densities around 90% of the theoretical density. And, on the processing route of which were only mixed, the values reached up to 97%. Therefore, in this work are also emphasized the processes that made possible these results.