BEHAVIOUR OF BUFFER LAYER IN JOINING OF SIALON CERAMICS TO STEEL 40Cr

The buffer layer material itself may be influential to the bond strength between active brazingfiller and ceramics.For Ag_(57)Cu_(38)Ti_5 filler metal,Cu or Ta is excellent buffer layer material,but Kovar or Ni-15Cr-15Co is worse.It was important to design a layer of soft buffer,suchas Cu,to relax interfacial stress rather than hard buffer layer,such as Mo,to avoid stress.There is an optimum thickness range of soft buffer layer,saying h/L=0.02—0.1. It was agood solution to the interfacial stress problem to use soft/hard buffer layer to increasemetal/ceramics joint strength.Finally,an idea of designing gradual materials as buffer layerbetween metal and ceramics was suggested.