Proceedings of the Korean Powder Metallurgy Institute Conference (한국분말야금학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2006.09a
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- Pages.507-508
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- 2006
Metal Injection Moulding of Duplex Stainless Steels
- Sotomayor, M. E. (Materials Science and Engineering Department Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Avda.Universidad) ;
- Varez, A. (Materials Science and Engineering Department Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Avda.Universidad) ;
- Levenfeld, B. (Materials Science and Engineering Department Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Avda.Universidad)
- Published : 2006.09.24
Abstract
In this communication the development of a new metal injection moulding (MIM) system for duplex stainless steels is presented. The metal powders were prepared by premixing 316L and 430L stainless steels gas atomised powders in a ratio of 50:50. The binder used to prepare the feedstock was composed by HDPE and paraffin wax. Torque measurements of the mixture indicated that the maximum amount of metal was 68 vol%. The polymeric part was driven off by thermal debinding and the sintering was performed in low vacuum. The final densities were close to the theoretical ones.