scholarly journals Experimental Examination of Process Parameters During Fabrication and Machining of Powder Metallurgy Aluminum Component

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 1473-1476

The present study aims at investigating the effect of process characteristics during fabrication and machining of powder metallurgy (PM) Aluminium cylindrical components. The application of the machining process as an alternate manufacturing process to fabricate the PM Aluminium components for industrial use with desired shape and size is explored. The PM Aluminium cylindrical components were fabricated by compacting the Aluminium metal powder within the compaction dies under various values of compaction load, sintering temperature and sintering time. These PM components were then machined under different standard cutting velocity and tangential cutting velocity, surface roughness data were analyzed. After the investigation it was concluded that, higher values of compaction load, sintering time and sintering temperature leads to higher values of relative density and relative hardness of the sintered Aluminum component. Again from machining results it can be stated that, higher values of fabricating parameters have a higher significance on performance parameters.

2016 ◽  
Vol 1139 ◽  
pp. 55-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dibyendu Dutta Majumdar ◽  
Dehi Pada Mondal ◽  
Amit Roy Chowdhury ◽  
Harish Rao ◽  
Jyotsna Dutta Majumdar

The present study concerns detailed microstructural investigation and property evaluation of titanium-cenosphere composite developed by powder metallurgy route. The main process variables for the development of titanium-cenosphere composite were cenosphere particle size, sintering time, and sintering temperature. Followed by sintering, a detailed characterization of the sintered parts in terms of density, microstructure, composition and phase has been carried out. The compressive strength of the sintered component has also been evaluated in details. The density of the sintered pellets varied with process parameters and is significantly reduced (2.5-2.11 g/cm3) as compared to as-received titanium (4.5 g/cm3). The compressive yield strength of the sintered pellet is reduced as compared to as-received Ti-6Al-4V.


Author(s):  
Vairamuthu J ◽  
Senthil Kumar A ◽  
Stalin B ◽  
Ravichandran M

In this paper, the aluminium based metal matrix composite material has been developed via powder metallurgy (PM) route by considering the various input process parameters. Sintering time, sintering temperature and compaction pressure are the three main factors used as input process parameters which are varied at three levels. Investigations have been planned with reference to the experimental design of L9 orthogonal array using a 3x3 matrix. The density, Vickers hardness and compression strength are experimented and analyzed. The influence of individual input parameters has been analyzed using Taguchi based S/N ratio and analysis of variance (ANOVA). The optimum parameter levels to achieve less density, high hardness and high compressive strength were identified through the main effect plots. Experimental results indicate that the sintering temperature and compaction pressure highly influences properties such as density and hardness. Similarly, compression strength mainly depends on sintering time and sintering temperature. Through ANOVA analysis, it was also confirmed that the selected parameter levels of the optimum sintering time at an average compaction pressure and sintering temperature will produce the best metal matrix composite material.


2013 ◽  
Vol 795 ◽  
pp. 573-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zuraidawani Che Daud ◽  
Shamsul Baharin Jamaludin

F-75 (Co-Cr-Mo) alloy are widely used in the production of medical implants because of their excellent strength properties, hardness and also one of the biocompatible materials that very suitable in human body environment. In this research, the effect of sintering in terms of sintering temperature and sintering time has been studied by focusing on the microstructure, physical and mechanical properties of F-75 alloy. The samples were prepared by blending the starting material at 160 rpm for 30 minutes, uniaxially pressing at 500 MPa and sintering in an argon atmosphere at two sintering temperatures (1300°C and 1350°C) for four sintering times (60, 90, 120 and 150 minutes). The results show that the grains and bulk density increased with the increasing of sintering temperature and sintering times. However, opposite results were obtained for apparent porosity, hardness and compressive strength


2011 ◽  
Vol 409 ◽  
pp. 209-214
Author(s):  
Javad Samei ◽  
Daniel E. Green ◽  
Vesselin Stoilov

One of the most challenging areas in engineering of composite materials is the fabrication of high quality microstructures. This issue is complicated for tungsten composites due to its high melting temperature and this leads to limitations in terms of possible processing techniques. This research investigates the fabrication of W-12%wtCu composites based on powder metallurgy techniques. Due to the very large difference between the melting point of tungsten and copper, there is no common sintering temperature range for them. In this work, 0.5%Wt nickel was added as an activator to decrease the sintering temperature of tungsten using an activated sintering effect. The effects of pressure, sintering time and temperature in solid state and liquid phase conditions were also investigated. While solid state hot pressing did not result in appropriate microstructures, the liquid phase hot pressing provided high quality samples with a relative density of 98.0%.


Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (14) ◽  
pp. 3790
Author(s):  
Yongzheng Ji ◽  
Tsuyoshi Honma ◽  
Takayuki Komatsu

Sodium super ionic conductor (NASICON)-type Na3Zr2Si2PO12 (NZSP) with the advantages of the high ionic conductivity, stability and safety is one of the most famous solid-state electrolytes. NZSP, however, requires the high sintering temperature about 1200 °C and long sintering time in the conventional solid-state reaction (SSR) method. In this study, the liquid-phase sintering (LPS) method was applied to synthesize NZSP with the use of NaPO3 glass with a low glass transition temperature of 292 °C. The formation of NZSP was confirmed by X-ray diffraction analyses in the samples obtained by the LPS method for the mixture of Na2ZrSi2O7, ZrO2, and NaPO3 glass. The sample sintered at 1000 °C for 10 h exhibited a higher Na+ ion conductivity of 1.81 mS/cm at 100 °C and a lower activation energy of 0.18 eV compared with the samples prepared by the SSR method. It is proposed that a new LPE method is effective for the synthesis of NZSP and the NaPO3 glass has a great contribution to the Na+ diffusion at the grain boundaries.


Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 438
Author(s):  
Shuwei Yang ◽  
Bingliang Liang ◽  
Changhong Liu ◽  
Jin Liu ◽  
Caisheng Fang ◽  
...  

The (1–x)Ca0.61La0.26TiO3-xNd(Mg0.5Ti0.5)O3 [(1–x)CLT-xNMT, x = 0.35~0.60] ceramics were prepared via microwave sintering. The effects of sintering temperature and composition on the phase formation, microstructure, and microwave dielectric properties were investigated. The results show that the microwave sintering process requires a lower sintering temperature and shorter sintering time of (1–x)CLT-xNMT ceramics than conventional heating methods. All of the (1–x)CLT-xNMT ceramics possess a single perovskite structure. With the increase of x, the dielectric constant (ε) shows a downward trend; the quality factor (Qf) drops first and then rises significantly; the resonance frequency temperature coefficient (τf) keeps decreasing. With excellent microwave dielectric properties (ε = 51.3, Qf = 13,852 GHz, τf = −1.9 × 10−6/°C), the 0.65CLT-0.35NMT ceramic can be applied to the field of mobile communications.


2014 ◽  
Vol 788 ◽  
pp. 329-333
Author(s):  
Rui Zhou ◽  
Xiao Gang Diao ◽  
Jun Chen ◽  
Xiao Nan Du ◽  
Guo Ding Yuan ◽  
...  

Effects of sintering temperatures on the microstructure and mechanical performance of SPS M3:2 high speed steel prepared by spark plasma sintering was studied. High speed steel sintering curve of continuous heating from ambient temperature to 1200°C was estimated to analyze the sintering processes and sintering temperature range. The sintering temperature within this range was divided into groups to investigate hardness, relative density and microstructure of M3:2 high-speed steel. Strip and quadrate carbides were observed inside the equiaxed grains. SPS sintering temperature at 900°C can lead to nearly full densification with grain size smaller than 20μm. The hardness and bending strength are higher than that of the conventionally powder metallurgy fabricated ones sintered at 1270°C. However, fracture toughness of the high speed steel is lower than that of the conventional powder metallurgy steels. This can be attributed to the shape and distribution of M6C carbides which reduce the impact toughness of high speed steels.


2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 194
Author(s):  
Joseph Gunawan ◽  
Dede Taufik ◽  
Veni Takarini ◽  
Zulia Hasratiningsih

Introduction: Porcelain must have sufficient flexural strength to withstand mastication forces. The flexural strength of porcelain can be influenced by the maturity level of porcelain related to the temperature and sintering time. The purpose of this study was to compare the flexural strength of Indonesian natural sand self-synthesised porcelain with different sintering temperatures. Methods: Self-synthesised porcelain powder, with the composition of 65% Pangaribuan felspar, 25% Belitung silica, 5% Sukabumi kaolin, and 5% potassium salt, were condensed into 10 samples with the size of 7cm x 2cm x 0.4cm. A total of 5 samples were each burned at the temperature of 1150°C and 1200°C. Flexural strength test was performed using the Universal Testing Machine (Netzsch™) with the lowest load of 7.5 kg, and the data obtained was calculated using the bending strength formula. Result: The average flexural strength of self-synthesised porcelain at the sintering temperature of 1150°C was 26.678 MPa, while at the temperature of 1200°C was 39.038 MPa. Conclusion: This study concluded that Indonesian natural sand self-synthesised porcelain had a lower flexural strength at the sintering temperature of 1150°C than at the temperature of 1200°C.Keywords: Flexural strength, self-synthesised porcelain, sintering temperature.


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