Mechanical Alloying and Sintering of Ti-10Wt.% Mg Powders

2009 ◽  
Vol 618-619 ◽  
pp. 105-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Machio ◽  
D. Nyabadza ◽  
Hilda Kundai Chikwanda ◽  
M. Phasha ◽  
V.M. Sibanda

A Ti-10wt.%Mg powder alloy has been produced by mechanical alloying. Elemental powders of Ti and Mg were ball milled in a Zoz-Simoloyer CM01 for 16 and 20 hours under argon. Mechanical alloying was followed by XRD, SEM and particle size analysis. Test specimens of the milled powders were produced by cold compaction and sintering (under argon). The milling resulted into a fcc TiMg solid solution for both milling durations. Sintering leads to a partial decomposition of the fcc TiMg to hcp TiMg and Ti.

2017 ◽  
Vol 263 ◽  
pp. 189-194
Author(s):  
Sıddıka Mertdinç ◽  
Emre Tekoğlu ◽  
Hasan Gökçe ◽  
Duygu Ağaoğulları ◽  
M. Lütfi Öveçoğlu

In this study, the effect of mechanical alloying (MA) on the microstructural, mechanical and physical properties of vanadium boride particulate reinforced Al-7 wt. % Si matrix composites were investigated. VB-VB2-V3B4 containing vanadium boride hybrid powders were mechanochemically synthesized for 5 h from the V2O5-B2O3-Mg powder blends and leached with hydrochloric acid (HCl) for purification. Laboratory-synthesized VB-VB2-V3B4 powders were incorporated into the Al-7wt. % Si matrix powders with the amount of 2 wt.% via MA for 4h in a SpexTM Mixer/Mill using hardened steel vial/balls with a ball-to-powder weight ratio of 7/1. After the MA process, phase analysis (X-ray diffraction), particle size analysis (laser particle size measurement), surface area analysis (Brunauer-Emmett-Teller measurement) and microstructural characterization (scanning electron microscope (SEM) micrograph) and thermal analysis (differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)) of the non-milled/milled Al-7 wt.% Si-2wt.% (VB-VB2-V3B4) powders were conducted. As-blended and MA’d powders were compacted at a uniaxial hydraulic press to obtain cylindrical compacts with a diameter of 12 mm under a pressure of 400 MPa. Green bodies were sintered at 570°C for 2 h under Ar gas flowing conditions. Microstructural characterizations of the sintered samples were carried out using XRD and optical microscope (OM). Physical and mechanical properties of the composites were investigated in terms of density (Archimedes method), Vickers microhardness and wear rate. The microhardness and wear rate of the 4h of MA’d and sintered sample respectively increased to 0.865±0.256 GPa and 0.0036 mm3/N.m as compared with those of as-blended and sintered sample.


2007 ◽  
Vol 553 ◽  
pp. 257-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Shokuhfar ◽  
M.R. Dashtbayazi ◽  
M.R. Alinejad ◽  
Tolou Shokuhfar

In this research work, a high-energy ball mill has been applied to prepare an Al/SiC nanocomposite. The formation mechanism of the nanocomposite was investigated. This nanocomposite contained the nanocrystalline characteristics. Crystallite size, lattice strain and particle size of the nanocomposite as a function of milling time were determined. SEM micrographs showed that the nanocomposite powders agglomerated after milling. The particle size analysis confirmed the agglomeration of the nanocomposite particles. TEM observations showed that the SiC particles were in the nanometer size and these particles embedded in the Al matrix, and the nanocomposite produced in the final stage of mechanical alloying. In addition, a simple model checked for the refinement of the crystallite and the particle size of nanocomposite.


Circular ◽  
1985 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence J. Poppe ◽  
A.H. Eliason ◽  
J.J. Fredericks

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