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Superplastic Properties of Hipped and Extruded Iron Carbide

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2011

W. J. Kim
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, U.S.A.
O. A. Ruano
Affiliation:
Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Metalúrgicas, C.S.I.C., Av. de Gregorio del Amo 8, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
J. Wolfenstine
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA 92717, U.S.A.
G. Frommeyer
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institut für Eisenforschung GMBH, Max Planck Strasse 1, 4000 Düsseldorf 1, Federal Republic of Germany.
O. D. Sherby
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, U.S.A.
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Abstract

Hipped and extruded materials were prepared from atomized-powders containing 5.25C, 1.5Cr and balance Fe. The materials consist of a matrix of 80 volume percent of iron carbide and 20 volume percent of a discontinous iron base phase. Both processed materials were reduced in thickness (6:1) at 720°C. The grain size was about 2 μm for the hipped-and-pressed material and about 4 μm for the extruded-and-pressed material. Compression tests were used to evaluate the strain-rate-sensitivity exponent, m, in the temperature range from 725°C to 950°C, over the strain rate range of 10−5 to 2 × 10−2 s−1. The as-hipped material does not exhibit superplastic behavior because the grain shape is not equiaxed. At low stresses, in the superplastic range (m≈0.5), the hipped-and-pressed material was weaker than the extruded-and-pressed material as a result of the fine grain size. At high stresses, when slip dominates the deformation process, m is about 0.2 and a reversal in the relative strength is obtained. Tensile tests were performed and elongations in excess of 600% were achieved. The hipped-and-pressed material was shown to be more ductile than the extruded-and pressed-material which is attributed to its fine grain size.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1990

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