Thermal Stress Analysis of Powder Metallurgy Sintering Process Based on ANSYS
Powder metallurgy is a technology process that the powder is pressed and sintered to get the metal and composite products. The sintering temperature is one of the main technology parameters of pressing sintering. In significant measure, the sintering temperature determines the organization and geometry size of the material, which directly affects the performance of the material. This paper takes magnesium powder metallurgy sintering material as the research object, studying the transient thermal analysis with the ANSYS finite element software, systematic researching the sinter temperature field and thermal stress field of sintered body in the sintering process, and observing in the corresponding distribution of stress field and deformation under different sintering temperature distribution graph. Temperature field and thermal stress field are the main factors affecting the quality of the sintered body in sintering process. Uneven temperature distribution will cause larger thermal stress. When the thermal stress exceeds a certain limit, the sample will be deformed. With the temperature increases, the sintering temperature difference increases, the stress distribution in the constantly changes. The stress and deformation is not entirely visible for sintered body, the deformation and cracking will be side by side in the sintering process. Therefore, theory of temperature field and thermal stress distribution are studied and discussed in certain sintering processing, the sintering process optimization can be designed to provide quantitative basis of the theoretical analysis.