Artículo
Low-Voltage Capacitor Electrical Discharge Consolidation of Iron Powder
Autor/es | Aranda Louvier, Rosa María
Ternero Fernández, Fátima Aranda Louvier, Beatriz Montes Martos, Juan Manuel Gómez Cuevas, Francisco de Paula |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Ingeniería y Ciencia de los Materiales y del Transporte |
Fecha de publicación | 2022-09 |
Fecha de depósito | 2023-05-25 |
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Resumen | Commercially pure iron powder has been processed by the capacitor electrical discharge consolidation technique. This consolidation technique applies an external pressure and, at the same time, heats a metallic powder mass ... Commercially pure iron powder has been processed by the capacitor electrical discharge consolidation technique. This consolidation technique applies an external pressure and, at the same time, heats a metallic powder mass by the Joule effect of a high-voltage and high-intensity electric current. In this work, a capacitor charged at low voltage has been used instead. The effect of the initial porosity of the Fe powder mass, i.e., of the precompaction pressure, and the number of discharges from the capacitor have been studied. The densification and remaining porosity, the sintering level, the Vickers microhardness, and the electrical resistivity of the sintered compacts have been studied. Compacts sintered by the conventional powder metallurgy route of cold pressing and furnace sintering were also prepared for comparison. Results show that a high initial porosity provides a high electrical resistance in the powder column, a necessary requisite for the Joule effect to increase densification with the number of discharges. Thus, the final porosity decreases to 0.22 after 50 discharges in the powder mass with an initial porosity of 0.30. With this initial porosity, the sintering process increases Vickers microhardness from 29 to 51 HV10 and decreases the electrical resistivity of the powder mass from 3.53 × 10−2 to 5.38 × 10−4 Ω·m. An initial porosity of 0.2 does not make the compacts densify, but a certain bond between particles is attained, increasing microhardness and decreasing electrical resistivity as the number of discharges increases. Lower initial porosities make the powder mass behave as an electrical conductor with no appreciable changes even after 50 electrical discharges. |
Agencias financiadoras | Junta de Andalucía Universidad de Sevilla |
Identificador del proyecto | TEP-971
2020/00000647 |
Cita | Aranda Louvier, R.M., Ternero Fernández, F., Aranda Louvier, B., Montes Martos, J.M. y Gómez Cuevas, F.d.P. (2022). Low-Voltage Capacitor Electrical Discharge Consolidation of Iron Powder. Metals, 12 (9), 1461. https://doi.org/10.3390/met12091461. |
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