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Special Issue Article

Influence of concentration in interstitial elements on mechanical alloying of Fe–C powder mixtures

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Pages 273-279 | Received 21 Nov 2011, Accepted 20 Feb 2012, Published online: 12 Nov 2013
 

Abstract

This work concerns the mechanical alloying processing of Fe–C powders likely to be utilised for sintering of tool steel. The influence of synthesis conditions, such as milling time, gas nature in the vial (shown here as reactive) and carbon concentration in the different powder mixtures of iron and graphite, is characterised. In the second stage, the role of thermal treatment, at moderate temperature, on the highly metastable as milled products is studied. It appears that the structure is heterogeneous and shows α-ferrite, α′′′-like cubic disordered phase, hexagonal ϵ-carbonitride and θ-cementite. The presence of N2 gas phase appears to favour a precipitation phenomenon of the Fe3C cementite on the one hand and of epsilon carbonitride on the other hand.

Notes

This paper is part of a special issue on ‘Euromat 2011: powder synthesis and processing for controlled microstructure’

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