Abstract
At present, powder materials are used in practically all branches of industry, from medicine to aerospace technology. This is a wide range of materials ranging from constructional and instrumental materials and ending with special-purpose materials and medical implants. Powder metallurgy methods are most often used where the manufacture of products with desired properties is impossible using traditional methods: casting, stamping, etc. The production of all these materials is based on such basic operations as: obtaining starting materials, molding from these materials blanks of a given shape, size and strength, and sintering, intended for the final formation of the required properties and dimensions. The peculiarity of powder metallurgy technology allows creating a huge variety of developed technological schemes, which puts these technologies to a new level and allows for the rapid development of many industries. Alloying powder steels, in contrast to cast steels, has a number of characteristic features due to the specificity of their production. The structure of powder alloy steels and their properties depend on the methods of obtaining steels and technological features of their production. The following main methods of obtaining powder alloyed steels can be named: preparation of multicomponent mixtures of powders of iron and alloying elements and their subsequent processing; the use of alloyed iron powders, to which, if necessary, add carbon or other alloying elements; impregnation with liquid alloying metals or diffusion saturation of frameworks sintered from iron powders.
Are Large Particles of Iron Detrimental to Properties of Powder Metallurgy Steels?
