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The small punch creep (SPC) test has recently received much attention as a new alternative to the conventional uniaxial creep test because it needs only a miniature-sized specimen directly detached from an operating system or component without any serious sampling damages. However, it is difficult to obtain the equivalent uniaxial creep data directly from the SPC data. As a specimen is deformed by a punch in the SPC test, the test result is sensitive to the friction between them. Finite element analyses with various friction coefficients was performed and showed a tendency of increased SPC life with an increased friction coefficient. The necking position predicted by the SPC simulation with a proper friction coefficient showed good agreement with that observed from the real SPC test. Finally, a noble method to convert the SPC load and displacement rate into the equivalent uniaxial creep stress and strain rate, respectively, was established in this study.

keyword : alloys, creep, recovery, tensile test

Various types of steel, namely, 0.35C, 0.2C-Cr, and 0.2C-Cr-Mo steels, were quenched and tempered by high-frequency induction heat treatment. The type, size, and spheroidization of the carbides varied depending on the tempering temperatures (450~720℃). During the tempering process, the carbide was precipitated in the martensite matrix. The 0.35C, 0.2C-Cr, and 0.2C-Cr-Mo steels contained carbides that were smaller than 120 nm. The carbide was spheroidized as the tempering temperature increased. Owing to the fine microstructure and spheroidization of the carbides, all three steels had a high tensile strength as well as yield ratio and reduction of area. In the case of the 0.2C-Cr steel, the use of Cr as an alloying element facilitated the precipitation of alloyed carbides with an extremely small particle and resulted in an increase in the spheroidization rate of the carbides. As a result, a large reduction of area was achieved (>70%). The 0.2C-Cr-Mo steel had the highest tensile strength because of the high hardenability that can be attributed to the presence of alloying elements (Cr and Mo). Quenching and tempering steels by induction heat treatment resulted in a high strength of over 1 GPa and a large reduction of area (>70%) because of the rapid heating and cooling rates.

keyword : metals, nanostructured materials, tempering, ductility, precipitation, strength

The effects of Cr and Al contents in Fe-Al and Fe-Cr alloys on oxidation resistance, hardness, and the thermal expansion coefficient were investigated. Fe-Al and Fe-Cr alloys above 10wt.%Al and 20wt.%Cr contents have a high oxidation resistance. The hardness of the Fe-Al and Fe-Cr alloys increased with an increase in Al and Cr contents due to solid solution or formation of an intermetallic compound. The coefficients of thermal expansion of the Fe-Al alloys were higher than those of the Fe-Cr alloys because the coefficient of thermal expansion of Al was higher than that of Fe and Cr.

keyword : metal, rolling, oxidation, scanning electron microscopy

A nanopowder of TiAl was synthesized by high energy ball milling. Dense nanostuctured TiAl was consolidated using a high frequency induction heated sintering method within 2 minutes from mechanically synthesized powders of TiAl and horizontally milled powders of Ti+Al. Properties of the TiAl obtained using the two methods were compared. The grain size and hardness of TiAl sintered from horizontally milled Ti+Al powders and high energy ball milled TiAl powder were 40 nm, 20 nm, and 630 kg/mm2, 700 kg/mm2, respectively.

keyword : mechanical alloy, TiAl, nanomaterials, hardness, rapid sintering

This study investigated the effect of process temperature on the alloying process during synthesis of Sm2Fe17 powder from ball-milled samarium oxide (Sm2O3) powders and a solid reducing agent of calcium hydrides (CaH2) using iron nanopowder (n-Fe powder) by a reduction-diffusion (R-D) process. The n-Fe-Sm2O3- CaH2 mixed powders were subjected to heat treatment at 850~1100℃ in Ar-H2 for 5 h. It was found that the iron nanopowders in the mixed powders are sintered below 850℃ during the R-D process and the SmH2 is synthesized by a reduced Sm that combines with H2 around 850℃. The results showed that SmH2 is able to separate Sm and H2 respectively depending on an increase in process temperature, and the formed Sm2Fe17 phase on the surface of the sintered Fe nanopowder agglomerated at temperatures of 950~1100℃ in this study. The formation of the Sm2Fe17 layer is mainly due to the diffusion reaction of Sm atoms into the sintered Fe nanopowder, which agglomerates above 950℃. We concluded that nanoscale Sm2Fe17 powder can be synthesized by controlling the diffusion depth using well-dispersed Fe nanopowders.

keyword : magnetic materials, powder processing, microstructure, scanning electron microsopy , SEM, reduction diffusion process

In this study, the effect of the reinforcement on the wear behaviour and mechanical properties of hypereutectic Al-Si alloys was investigated. The Gas atomized hypereutectic Al-20Si alloy powders were mixed with 1, 3, and 5 wt.% AlN and TiC ceramic particles and consolidated by hotpress. The Al-20Si powder has both finely dispersed primary Si phases and eutectic structures. The Al-20Si-AlN, TiC composites showed that the reinforcements were distributed along the boundary of the Al-20Si alloy. The UTS increased with increasing the AlN, TiC contents. At a lower load, with an increasing weight fraction of reinforcements, the wear rate decreased in both composites and the wear mechanism was adhesive wear. At a higher load, the shape of the debris changes the mechanism of the AlN composites to abrasive-adhesion wear and this resulted in an increase of the wear rate.

keyword : composites, sintering, mechanical properties, tensile test, wear

Extremely dense WC with a relative density of up to 99% was obtained within five minutes under a pressure of 80 MPa using the High-Frequency Induction Heated Sintering method. The average grain size of the WC was about 71 nm. The advantage of this process is not only rapid densification to obtain a neartheoretical density but also the prohibition of grain growth in nano-structured materials. The hardness and fracture toughness of the dense WC produced by HFIHS were 2660 kg·mm?2 and 7.2 MPa·m1/2, respectively.

keyword : nanostructured materials, powder metallurgy, mechanical properties, sintering, high-frequency induction heated sintering

In order to improve the purity on deposit in cobalt electrowining, a fundamental study using Pulse- Reverse Current (PRC) was carried out. Based on a sulfate solution, Cu, Ni, and Fe as impurities were added during cobalt electrowinning. There were four reverse waveforms and frequency conditions from 1 Hz to 10 kHz, and the purity of each condition was compared with the Direct Current (DC) purity. From the results, it was found that the anodic potential induced by reverse current affects selective dissolution of impurities. In this work, the case of the highest reverse peak current density (Ir) with a short reverse time (tr) at 100 Hz showed a higher purity than that of the DC. This PRC condition also showed only a 4% low current efficiency comparable to the DC. We concluded that an optimized PRC for cobalt electrowinning could improve the purity with little loss of current efficiency.

keyword : electrowinning, pulse-reverse current, cobalt, cyclic voltammetry

The charpy impact property was lower at the surface and middle regions than that at the root region in metal welded by Tandem EGW of 82 mm thick EH40-TM steel plates. Temperature distribution in the weld sample and the heating/cooling temperature throughout the various regions in the weld metal were estimated by the commercial weld simulation program SYSWELD. The microstructure of the weld metal consisted of acicular ferrite and grain boundary ferrite. Grain boundary ferrite in the acicular ferrite matrix was found more in the surface and middle regions than in the root region, and the acicular ferrite was also coarser in the surface and middle regions where the impact toughness was lower and the input temperature was higher. Our results indicated that the impact toughness property was related to the microstructure morphology, the distribution of grain boundary ferrite, and the acicular ferrite.

keyword : tandem EGW, EH40, weld simulation, cooling rate, acicular ferrite, grain boundary ferrite

In the development of 3D package, through silicon via (TSV) formation technology by using deep reactive ion etching (DRIE) is one of the key processes. We performed the Bosch process, which consists of sequentially alternating the etch and passivation steps using SF6 with O2 and C4F8 plasma, respectively. We investigated the effect of changing variables on vias: the gas flow time, the ratio of O2 gas, source and bias power, and process time. Each parameter plays a critical role in obtaining a specified via profile. Analysis of via profiles shows that the gas flow time is the most critical process parameter. A high source power accelerated more etchant species fluorine ions toward the silicon wafer and improved their directionality. With O2 gas addition, there is an optimized condition to form the desired vertical interconnection. Overall, the etching rate decreased when the process time was longer.

keyword : TSV, Bosch process, DRIE, ICP, via profile