As threats increase in today’s complex world, defense and military professionals require strong and durable armor – such as silicon carbide plates – to safeguard lives and safeguard military assets. Silicon carbide plates offer this solution.
SiC plates are composed of silicon carbide ceramic mixed with other materials like aramid fibers or ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) to provide protection from bullets or other ballistic threats.
1. Excellent High-Temperature Performance
Silicon carbide excels at high temperatures, maintaining its strength and resistance to damage at temperatures up to 1600degC without losing strength or becoming damaged – an exceptional feature making it ideal for applications including refractory materials, semiconductor wafer tray supports, electric furnace paddles and paddles. Furthermore, silicon carbide boasts excellent thermal properties with its specific heat of 3.21g/cm3 making it chemically inert and non-toxic making it suitable for harsh environments.
At high temperatures, it exhibits minimal thermal expansion while its Mohs hardness of 13 places it among the hardest substances ever known (only diamond and boron carbide have higher ratings). Furthermore, its durability enables it to withstand abrasion, erosion, oxidation, and corrosion damage.
These qualities make aluminum an excellent material choice for shot blasting systems and seal faces in vehicle components, as well as producing armor and ballistic plates for military and security forces due to its superior toughness and lightweight nature.
2. Strong Corrosion Resistance
Silicon carbide plates offer excellent corrosion resistance against acids and alkalis, meaning they don’t pollute heat transfer medium and meet all the requirements for food processing, medicine and metallurgy industries where strong acid environments exist.
Silicon Carbide Plates are utilized as armor components in military vehicles like tanks, armored personnel carriers and aircraft to shield them from damage without adding too much weight. Furthermore, they’re utilized in high-performance particulate control ceramic filtration systems for energy generation, environmental heating and waste incineration to increase efficiency.
Pressureless sintered silicon carbide is almost universally corrosion-resistant, standing up against all forms of acids (hydrochloric, sulfuric and nitric), bases (amines, potash and caustic soda), solvents and oxidizing media. Furthermore, it makes an excellent material for spray nozzles and shot blast nozzles due to its very low thermal expansion rate and ability to resist heavy mechanical stress.
3. High Hardness and High Strength
Silicon carbide plates are exceptionally hard and strong, providing superior protection from damage. Furthermore, their resistance to mechanical stress and high pressure makes them perfect for use in demanding environments. Furthermore, unlike other ceramics such as zirconia, silicon carbide retains its strength even at elevated temperatures while having superior chemical resistance allowing it to be utilized across an array of industries and applications.
Silicon carbide’s remarkable hardness stems from its unique crystal structure: composed of tightly packed tetrahedral structures of silicon and carbon atoms bound together tightly within its crystal lattice, silicon carbide is second only to diamond and boron carbide for hardness, making it a fantastic material choice for use in abrasives and other tough applications.
Silicon carbide stands out among industrial ceramic materials thanks to its toughness and strength. Able to withstand high temperatures without melting down, silicon carbide can easily be formed into various shapes for use across various applications and offers excellent corrosion resistance against acids and alkalis for stable performance in harsh environmental conditions.
4. Excellent Thermal Conductivity and Electrical Conductivity
Silicon carbide plate is an outstanding ceramic material with outstanding thermal and electrical properties, inert chemically properties, and excellent wear resistance, making it the ideal material choice for use in harsh environments such as body armor. Silicon carbide has also proven highly resistant against bullets and other ballistic threats making it an effective deterrent against such threats.
Their distinctive electrical characteristics stem from its wide bandgap semiconductor behavior. By doping it with impurities such as aluminum, boron, gallium and nitrogen dopants it can be made to behave either as an insulator or conductor depending on conditions.
Silicon carbide’s ability to withstand high temperatures, chemical reactions and vibrations make it an indispensable component in electronic devices. Furthermore, it features low thermal expansion which helps minimize dimensional changes while maintaining stability over a variety of temperatures. In fact, silicon carbide is one of the strongest technical ceramic materials on the market, making it an excellent option for demanding industrial applications.
5. Lightweight and Easy to Manufacture
Silicon carbide plate stands out among ceramic products as having superior strength while remaining lightweight, helping increase construction efficiency and decrease equipment load. Furthermore, it works consistently over extended high temperature environments while proving resistant to corrosion and oxidation.
Aluminium alloy’s superior thermal conductivity and electrical properties make it an indispensable material for electronic circuits, radiators, and more. Due to this versatility it has many applications in aerospace, automotive, and energy sectors.
Silicon Carbide plates’ high temperature resistance makes them a valuable material to use as furniture and linings for ceramic kilns, while their corrosion-proof qualities also allow them to help prevent erosion and wear in iron and steel smelting operations.
Ballistic protection made from aluminum-lithium composite is used to shield against bullets and other threats. These protective plates are often integrated into military and personal armor systems and boast better multi-hit performance against various ballistic threats than their alumina counterpart.
6. Long Service Life
Silicon carbide plates offer long-term durability and high resistance to damage. Their lightweight construction reduces equipment loads while increasing worker safety, while their low thermal expansion coefficient allows them to endure rapid temperature fluctuations without fracture or warping.
Our high-performance SiC plates can be found in various applications, ranging from ceramic coatings like enamel and electrical insulators, everyday ceramics, architectural ceramics and glass manufacturing processes to providing abrasion-resistant linings for blast nozzles and cyclone components.
Kerui offers various kinds of silicon carbide plates, including sintered, reaction-bonded and recrystallized products. Sintered silicon carbide refractory plates feature exceptional mechanical strength and stability while reaction-bonded products boast exceptional chemical resistance; and recrystallized products have incredible purity – characteristics which make our silicon carbide plates suitable for high performance particulate control ceramic filtration systems and industrial processes alike.
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