• Journal of Powder Materials
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.117-121
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• 2012

Tool steels serve a large range of applications including hot and cold workings of metals and injection mouldings of plastics or light alloys. The high speed steels (HSS) are specifically used as cutting tools and wear parts because it has high strength, wear resistance and hardness along with appreciable toughness and fatigue resistance. From the view of HSS microstructure, it can be described as metallic matrix composites formed by a ferrous with a dispersion of hard and wear resistant carbides. The experimental specimens were manufactured using the PIM with T42 powders (50~80 vol.%) and polymer (20~50 vol.%). The green parts were debinded in n-hexane solution at $60^{\circ}C$ for 8 hours and thermal debinded at an $N_2-H_2$ mixed gas atmosphere for 8 hours. Specimens were sintered in high vacuum ($10^{-5}$ Torr) and various temperatures.

• Journal of Powder Materials
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.312-318
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• 2010

High speed steels (HSS) were used as cutting tools and wear parts, because of high strength, wear resistance, and hardness together with an appreciable toughness and fatigue resistance. Conventional manufacturing process for production of components with HSS was used by casting. The powder metallurgy techniques were currently developed due to second phase segregation of conventional process. The powder injection molding method (PIM) was received attention owing to shape without additional processes. The experimental specimens were manufactured with T42 HSS powders (59 vol%) and polymer (41 vol%). The metal powders were prealloyed water-atomised T42 HSS. The green parts were solvent debinded in normal n-Hexane at $60^{\circ}C$ for 24 hours and thermal debinded at $N_2-H_2$ mixed gas atmosphere for 14 hours. Specimens were sintered in $N_2$, $H_2$ gas atmosphere and vacuum condition between 1200 and $1320^{\circ}C$. In result, polymer degradation temperatures about optimum conditions were found at $250^{\circ}C$ and $480^{\circ}C$. After sintering at $N_2$ gas atmosphere, maximum hardness of 310Hv was observed at $1280^{\circ}C$. Fine and well dispersed carbide were observed at this condition. But relative density was under 90%. When sintering at $H_2$ gas atmosphere, relative density was observed to 94.5% at $1200^{\circ}C$. However, the low hardness was obtained due to decarbonization by hydrogen. In case of sintering at the vacuum of $10^{-5}$ torr at temperature of $1240^{\circ}C$, full density and 550Hv hardness were obtained without precipitation of MC and $M_6C$ in grain boundary.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.762-771
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• 1987

Friction welding is a fusion process in which the necessary heat is generated by clamping one of the two pieces to be welded in a stationary chuck and rotating the other at high speed with an axially applied load. It is essentially a variation of the pressure welding process but utilizes a novel heating method. In addition to the foregoing advantages, it has also been reported excellent for welding dissimilar materials. Therefore, this study reported on investigating the strength behavior for the frictionally welded domestic structural steel SM45C and SUS304. The results obtained by the experiments are as follows. (1) The highest tensile strength of the best friction welded specimen (B4) is about 3% lower than that of SM-45C base metal, and 9% lower than that of SUS304 base metal. The heat treated specimens (850.deg.C 1hr A.C) have almost same value of tensile strength. (2) The strain of SM45C base metal is 27.3% and that of SUS304 is 42%, that of the best friction welded specimen (B4) appeared as 11.9% which is about 50% lower than the base metal, so, this same phenomenon apeared in all the other welding conditions. (3) The bending strength of SM45C base metal is 123kgf/mm$^{2}$ and that of SUS304 is 127kgf/mm$^{2}$. The best specimen (B4) appeared as 121kgf/mm$^{2}$ which is almost same bending strength for both base metals. (4) The friction welded condition involving maximum strength is determined by P$_{1}$=8kgf/mm$_{2}$, P$_{2}$=22kgf/mm$_{2}$, T$_{1}$=10sec, T$_{2}$=2sec, and amount of upset 7.6mm. (5) The interface of two dissimilar materials are mixed strongly, and welded zone is about 1.03mm and also the heat affected zone is about 2.36mm at SM45C while about 1.85mm at SUS304, therefore the welded zone and heat affected zone are very narrow to compare with those of the other welding materials.