Development of Binderless WC Hard Alloy Prepared by Pulsed Current Sintering

Carbon-Dispersed WCFeAl Hard Material Fabricated by Mechanical Milling and Subsequent Pulsed Current Sintering

A new metal mold material for pulsed current sintering (PCS) methods at high temperatures with higher electrical resistivity than cemented carbide molds, was fabricated using mechanical milling and PCS. The constituent (100 1 x)(WC­10 or 30FeAl) + xC (x = 0­8; mass%) hard material with dispersed spherical carbon particles were synthesized via mechanical milling of the source powders and PCS. Th...

Porous NiTi alloy prepared from elemental powder sintering

An elemental powder sintering (EPS) technique has been developed for the synthesis of porous NiTi alloy, in which Ni and Ti powders are used as the reactants and TiH2 powder is added as a pore-forming agent and active agent. Effects of various experimental parameters (sintering temperature, sintering time, and TiH2 content) on the porosity, pore size and pore distribution as well as phase compo...

Sintering and Heat Treatment of Titanium Alloys by Pulsed Electric Current Sintering

Microstructure, mechanical properties and superelasticity of biomedical porous NiTi alloy prepared by microwave sintering.

Porous NiTi alloys were prepared by microwave sintering using ammonium hydrogen carbonate (NH4HCO3) as the space holder agent to adjust the porosity in the range of 22-62%. The effects of porosities on the microstructure, hardness, compressive strength, bending strength, elastic modulus, phase transformation temperature and superelasticity of the porous NiTi alloys were investigated. The result...

Effect of SiC Nanowhisker on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of WC-Ni Cemented Carbide Prepared by Spark Plasma Sintering

Ultrafine tungsten carbide-nickel (WC-Ni) cemented carbides with varied fractions of silicon carbide (SiC) nanowhisker (0-3.75 wt.%) were fabricated by spark plasma sintering at 1350°C under a uniaxial pressure of 50 MPa with the assistance of vanadium carbide (VC) and tantalum carbide (TaC) as WC grain growth inhibitors. The effects of SiC nanowhisker on the microstructure and mechanical prope...