Lean alloys in PM: From design to sintering performance

Powder Metallurgy

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 294-301

  Oro, R ^a   Campos, M ^a   Torralba, J M ^a,b   Capdevila, C ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b IMDEA MATERIALS INSTITUTE   (Spain)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL METALLURGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alloy design; Lean steels; Liquid phase sintering; Low melting point alloys; Thermocalc; Wetting behaviour

Indexed keywords

ALLOY DESIGNS; BASE PARTICLES; COOLING RATES; DILATOMETRY; FE-MN-SI; HOMOGENEOUS DISTRIBUTION; LIQUID PHASE; LOW ALLOY SINTERED STEEL; LOW MELTING POINT ALLOY; MASTER ALLOYS; PRODUCT DEVELOPING PROCESS; SINTERING PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL DESIGN; THERMOCALC; VOLATILE PRICES; WETTING BEHAVIOUR;

ALLOYING; ALLOYING ELEMENTS; CERIUM ALLOYS; DIFFERENTIAL THERMAL ANALYSIS; LIQUID PHASE SINTERING; LIQUIDS; MANGANESE; MELTING POINT; PRODUCT DESIGN; SILICON; SINTERING; WETTING;

ALLOY STEEL;

EID: 84869018636     PISSN: 00325899     EISSN: 17432901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1743290112Y.0000000016     Document Type: Article

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