Investigations on Manufacturing of Magnesium Alloy Powder by Air Atomization

Production of fine Nd-Fe-B alloy powder by pulsed plasma atomization

Extremely fine (<10 μm) Nd-Fe-B powder was generated by pulsed plasma atomization processing. The number average was just over 3 μm, as determined by computer-assisted scanning electron microscopy analysis of almost 3000 particles. Despite the fine particle size, alloys of stoichiometric Nd2Fe14B resulted in the properitectic formation of -Fe, deleteriously affecting the magnetic properties. N...

Atomization of Alloy Constraints

Constraints in Alloy, a declarative modeling language, can be translated into Boolean logic and solved with a SAT solver. Atomization is a technique for improving the performance of Alloy analyses; it exploits typing relationships in an Alloy model and produces a semantically equivalent model that can be translated into Boolean form using fewer variables, hence creating a formula that can be so...

Hybrid Gas Atomization for Powder Production

Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing of AZ31 Magnesium Alloy: Grain Refinement by Adjusting Pulse Frequency

Wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) offers a potential approach to fabricate large-scale magnesium alloy components with low cost and high efficiency, although this topic is yet to be reported in literature. In this study, WAAM is preliminarily applied to fabricate AZ31 magnesium. Fully dense AZ31 magnesium alloy components are successfully obtained. Meanwhile, to refine grains and obtain go...

Mitigation of Corrosion on Magnesium Alloy by Predesigned Surface Corrosion

Rapid corrosion of magnesium alloys is undesirable in structural and biomedical applications and a general way to control corrosion is to form a surface barrier layer isolating the bulk materials from the external environment. Herein, based on the insights gained from the anticorrosion behavior of corrosion products, a special way to mitigate aqueous corrosion is described. The concept is based...