Residual Stress Control of Functionally Graded Materials via Pulse-Electric Discharge Consolidation with Temperature Gradient Control

Author(s):  
Hiroshi Kimura ◽  
Tatsuya Satoh
Author(s):  
Ahmad Gheysarian ◽  
Mohammad Honarpisheh

One of the urgent needs for the medical, aerospace and military industries is to combine materials with heat-resistant as well as flexible structures. To create such a property, a ceramic must be placed next to metal. FGM materials have such a property in terms of thickness. Functionally graded materials (FGM) are examples of materials with different properties in the thickness direction. In the functionally graded materials, different properties can be created, by changing the percent weight of materials in each layer. It is very important to study the number of residual stresses in these materials due to the fact that several materials with different properties are combined with each other. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of production parameters on the number of residual stresses in the aluminum-copper FGM part and also to optimize the production process of these materials. The results indicate that the number of residual stresses decreases with increasing the sintering temperature, cooling time of the sample as well as uniformity along the thickness. In the experiments, the maximum residual stress was 171 MPa, which was obtained for a grain size of 100 microns, sintering temperature of 600°C and cooling time of 24 h and the minimum value of pressure residual stress was 120 MPa, which was obtained for grain size of 20 microns, sintering temperature of 900°C and cooling time of 48 h. Also, finite element modeling of the process was performed and shown a good agreement with experimental results.


1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 2589-2593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi-Rong He ◽  
Vidya Subramanian ◽  
John J. Lannutti

Sedimentation in organic solvents was followed by hot-pressing to produce 2 mole % yttria stabilized zirconia-NiAl functionally graded materials (FGM's). These FGM's were better able to accommodate high levels of residual stress than alumina-NiAl FGM's; this is possibly due to enhanced tetragonal phase retention. However, we found that the zirconia layer in these FGM's subsequently experiences room temperature transformation of t-ZrO2 to m-ZrO2.


1995 ◽  
Vol 42 (12) ◽  
pp. 1384-1388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mamoru Omori ◽  
Hirotaka Sakai ◽  
Katsuhiro Nishiyama ◽  
Eiji Suzuki ◽  
Toshio Hirai

2005 ◽  
Vol 475-479 ◽  
pp. 1555-1558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Song Zhe Jin ◽  
Hai Long Zhang ◽  
Shu Sheng Jia ◽  
Jing Feng Li

TiB2 and copper are difficult to be sintered together by conventional sintering process. In this article, the TiB2/Cu functionally graded materials (FGMs) were successfully fabricated via spark plasma sintering (SPS) method, in which a temperature gradient was achieved by using a specially designed mold and a two-step sintering was performed. The SEM observations show that the TiB2/Cu FGMs have dense microstructures. The XRD analysis suggests that no new phases were introduced into the TiB2/Cu composites after mechanical milling or SPS process. The TiB2/(TiB2+Cu)/Cu FGMs are promising electrode materials of solar thermoelectric modules.


1996 ◽  
Vol 434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. He ◽  
V. Subramanian ◽  
J. Lannutti

AbstractSimple sedimentation in organic solvents followed by hot-pressing is used to produce alumina-NiAI functionally graded materials (FGMs). Varying degrees of agglomeration influenced the phase arrangement in the mixed layer(s) producing microstructural variation. We discovered a pronounced structural dependence on NiAl stoichiometry. Slight variations in Al content are known to influence Tdb and these apparently lead to large increases in residual stress. Zirconia - NiA1 FGMs were better able to accorrunodate these levels of residual stress possibly due to accommodation by enhanced tetragonal phase retention. However, these FGMs undergo transformation of the tetragonal phase to the monoclinic fonn, starting from the surface. Finally, variable microstructures result in detectable changes in the stress-strain behavior of alumina-NiAl FGMs.


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