Adjusting the Sintering Cycle of a Hadfield Sintered Steel Produced by Metal Injection Molding
AUTOR(ES)
Schroeder, Renan, Ramos Filho, Antonio Itamar, Binder, Cristiano, Klein, Aloisio Nelmo
FONTE
Mat. Res.
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
17/11/2015
RESUMO
Processing of high manganese austenitic sintered steels present several challenges concerning thermodynamic reactions that occur during the sintering of these materials such as Mn oxidation, sublimation and even the formation of liquid phases or undesired compounds, e.g. grain boundary carbides. Therefore it is extremely important to adjust the sintering parameters to obtain the adequate microstructure and properties. In this work, the effect of some sintering parameters, i.e. temperature, gas atmosphere and cooling rate are studied by dilatometry. The experiments revealed that the sintering temperature has small impact on the microstructure formation. On the other hand, the decrease on oxygen chemical potential in the furnace atmosphere resulted in less oxidation of the powder particles. Moreover, the increasing on the cooling rate to 50 °C/min avoided the formation of grain boundary carbides. As a main conclusion, a special sintering cycle for Hadfield steel samples was suggested.
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