Consolidation of MA W-Ni-Fe Alloyed Powder by Microwave-Assisted Sintering英文文献资料.docVIP

Materials Sciences and Applications, 2011, 2, 609-614 609 doi:10.4236/msa.2011.26082 Published Online June 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/msa) Consolidation of MA W-Ni-Fe Alloyed Powder by Microwave-Assisted Sintering Wensheng Liu, Yunzhu Ma, Qingshan Cai State Key Laboratory for Powder Metallurgy, Central South University, Changsha, China. Email: zhuzipm@ Received February 17 , 2011; revised March 21 , 2011; accepted April 12 , 2011. th st th ABSTRACT MA W-Ni-Fe alloyed powder compact was sintered by microwave technology, and the influence of microwave sintering on consolidation of W-Ni-Fe alloy was studied. The fracture morphology and microstructure of alloys were measured by SEM and metallurgical microscope. The experimental results showed that microwave sintering promoted the densi- fication of MA W-Ni-Fe alloyed powder quickly with the higher heating rate. The density of the sintered samples in- creased with the increase of sintering temperature, and significant densification shrinkage occured at 1300?C ~ 1400?C. The tungsten grain grew rapidly at 1450?C. When the alloy was microwave sintered at 1550?C, the inner structure of alloy is more homogeneous, the average W grain size is about 15 μm, and the relative density of sintered specimen is 99%. Keywords: W-Ni-Fe Alloy, Microwave Sintering, Consolidation 1. Introduction the required temperature by means of the dielectric loss. Compared with the traditional heating process, the heat- ing efficiency of microwave is mainly come from the polarization of the alternating electromagnetic field, which makes the dipoles of inner material turning around repeatedly, resulting in a stronger vibration and friction, thereby heating the material [6]. Microwave sintering has a lot of merits, such as energy and time saving [7-10], and reducing p