Acta Metallurgica Sinica (English Letters) ›› 2013, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (4): 399-403.

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Improvement of a High Velocity Compaction Technique for Iron Powder

Dil Faraz KHAN1, 4), Haiqing YIN1), Zahid USMAN2), Matiullah KHAN3, 4),Xianjie YUAN1), Wenhao WANG1),Xuanhui QU1)   

  1. 1)Laboratory of Particulate and Powder Metallurgy, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
    2)Research Centre of Materials Science, School of Materials Science and Engineering,Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
    3) School of Materials Science and Engineering,University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083,China
    4) Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology Bannu, Bannu 28100, Pakistan
  • Received:2012-08-29 Revised:2013-03-14 Online:2013-08-25 Published:2013-07-11
  • Contact: Haiqing YIN
  • Supported by:

    National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (No.51172018), the National High Technical Research and Development Programme of China (No.2009BAE74B00), the National Basic Research Program of China (No.2006CB605207) and MOE Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University of China (No.I2P407).

Abstract:

Water atomized pure iron powder was compacted by high velocity compaction (HVC) with and without upper relaxation assist (URA) device. The influence of URA device on green density, spring back, green strength and hardness was studied. Morphological characteristics of the samples were observed by scanning electron microscope (SEM). Green strength of the samples was measured by computer controlled universal testing machine. The results show that as stroke length increases, the green density, green strength and hardness of the compacts increase gradually. At the identical stroke length, the green density of the compacts pressed with URA devise was 2% higher than the compacts pressed without URA device. The green strength and hardness of the compacts pressed with URA device were higher than the compacts pressed without URA device. Furthermore, the radial spring back of the compacts decreased gradually with the increment in stroke length, whilst that of compacts prepared with URA device was lower.

Key words: High velocity compaction, URA device, Green density, Spring back, Green strength, Hardness