The Effect of Different Composition of Stainless Steel (SS316L) Foam via Space Holder Method

2016 ◽  
Vol 1133 ◽  
pp. 310-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murni Faridah Mahammad Rafter ◽  
Sufizar Ahmad ◽  
Rosdi Ibrahim

Stainless Steel materials (SS316L) generally known as a highly wear performance and resistant to corrosion. The purpose in this study is to produce the stainless steel foam and physical properties of sintered 316L stainless steel materials produced by powder metallurgy (P/M) method. In this paper, the method is based on using spherical urea as space holder was investigated. Then, the foams will be given to consider the properties of SS316L foam after sintering process. Powder metallurgy process needs to go through the mixing, pressing, sintering and analysis. The selected compositions of SS316L were varied from 50 wt % to 60 wt % SS316L, respectively while the remaining percentages are foaming agent. The SS316L powders were cold-pressed with 8 tons pressure and sintered at 1200°C via tube furnace. The SS316L foams were then characterised using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) for morphological characterisation of the samples after sintering process. Lastly, porosity and density were tested for this sample. As a result, the composition with 60 wt % SS316L is provided higher bulk density and lower porosity which are 4.34 g/cm3 and 69.03 %, respectively.

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-188
Author(s):  
Shailendra Joshi

Stainless steel has an excellent mechanical property as well as high corrosion resistance. Stainless steel foams, therefore, seemed like an attractive material for impact energy absorption applications where damping capability is required such as in vehicles and buildings. Also when stainless steel foam is produced as stainless steel foam, the material density will be reduced thus the resulting foam will be a combination of light weight and high strength that can also be used in high strength applications. In our analysis, we tried to produce stainless steel foam through powder metallurgy in order to control mechanical properties in a better manner compared to the casting method. Also, we try to compare the pore morphology in foams on changing the space holder from accicular urea to crushed urea using FE-SEM. The properties of stainless steel foam, to a large extent, are found to depend on the arrangement of the pores which is decided by the space holder utilized during its synthesis using powder metallurgy route. The stainless steel obtained using acicular carbamide as space holder is found to possess acicular or irregular pores whereas those produced with crushed urea as space holder possesses nearly circular holes. Also, the previous foams are found to have better mechanical properties contributing towards more useful metallic foam.


Author(s):  
S. Fida Hassan ◽  
O. Siddiqui ◽  
M. F. Ahmed ◽  
A. I. Al Nawwah

In this study, we used powder metallurgy process to develop gradient concentrated single-phase fine magnesium–zinc alloy particles. Fine magnesium particles were initially dry coated with nanometer size zinc particles in homogeneous manner and cold compacted to cylindrical billet. Zinc atoms were diffused in to the magnesium particles during high-temperature sintering process and produced the single-phase gradient solid solution. The gradient concentration of zinc induced gradual grain refinement in the magnesium particles. The powder metallurgy processed gradient concentrated alloy particles showed an excellent level of hardness, strength, ductility, and fracture toughness in their bulk form, which was even much higher when compared with unalloyed magnesium. Despite having gradient solid solution structure, the developed alloy particles showed homogeneous properties in their bulk form.


2015 ◽  
Vol 761 ◽  
pp. 352-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y.F. Fuziana ◽  
A.R.M. Warikh ◽  
M.A. Lajis ◽  
M.A. Azam ◽  
Ahmad Hariz Mustaffa

Al7075 was recycled using the powder metallurgy technique to determine the effect of particle size distribution on the mechanical and microstructure of materials. Analysis of the microstructure, green density and microhardness was conducted to evaluate the performance of the recycled aluminium. The Al7075 was added with 4% of alumina and Al2O3 (3-4μm). The results showed that the green density of recycled Al7075 was lower than the pure Al7075. The average size distribution of the aluminium powder decreased with the increase in the ball mill time. As the temperature of sintering process increased, the green density decreased. The alloy’s microstructure sintered at 650°C has the lowest density, indicating a larger and more frequent porosity. The hardness of the samples with the addition of alumina was higher than the samples without the alumina. Sintering at 650°C also caused the hardness of the sample to increase in the range of approximately 50-62 Hv.


2015 ◽  
Vol 776 ◽  
pp. 246-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ketut Suarsana ◽  
Rudy Soenoko

Al/(SiCw+Al2O3p) composite was a blend of fine aluminum powder serving as a matrix while Silicon Carbid whiskers (SiCw) and Alumina (Al2O3p) as a reinforcement. Powder metallurgy was used for the manufacture of composites according to the shape of the test specimen. Parameter testing was conducted with varied sintering holding time of 1 h, 3 h and 6 h at a sintering temperature of 500°C and 600°C. This study was conducted to know hardness properties, density, porosity and SEM analysis. The results show that the sintering process which has been conducted affects the physical and mechanical properties of the composite. Increased hardness and density occur due to the stronger or more dense interface bonding between matrix and reinforcement which are affected by the increase in the holding time and sintering temprature, where the highest is at 6 hours with 600°C, while the porosity decreases inversely proportional to the density and the hardness that occur in composite materials.


2010 ◽  
Vol 654-656 ◽  
pp. 1832-1835
Author(s):  
Satoshi Sunada ◽  
Keisuke Arai ◽  
Katsuhiko Mori ◽  
Masahisa Miyahara ◽  
Kazuhiko Majima

The sintered stainless steel produced by the powder metallurgy process (P/M) has attracted a growing interest because it has the advantage of better formability to fabricate complex shape products without machining and welding. The four sintered stainless steel samples; i.e., the mono-phase SUS304L SS P/M sample (hereafter denoted as 304L), the mono-phase SUS316L SS P/M sample (hereafter denoted as 316L), the duplex-phase SUS316L and SUS434L SS P/M sample (hereafter denoted as 316L+434L), and the duplex-phase SUS316L and SUS434L SS P/M sample with copper (hereafter denoted as 316L+434L+Cu) were used in this experiment, and their corrosion behavior was investigated through the electrochemical procedure. It was confirmed from the potentiodynamic polarization test that their corrosion behavior was clearly classified into two groups. The one is for the mono-phase stainless steel group and the other is for the duplex-phase stainless steel group. Both corrosion current density (Icorr) and passivation current density (Ip) for the latter group were smaller than those for the former group, and especially the duplex-phase 316L + 434L SS sample with copper (316L+434L+Cu) showed the lowest value. This implies that the duplex-phase 316L + 434L SS sample with copper (316L+434L+Cu) has the highest corrosion resistance.


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