Densification mechanism of warm compaction and powder mixture designing rules

Abstract

By phenomenological analysis of warm compaction, it is found that, compared with the contribution of particle plastical deformation to densification of powder compact, the particle rearrangement is a dominant densification mechanism for powder warm compaction, and the plastical deformation of particles plays an important role in offering accommodating deformation for particle rearrangement and densifying powder compact at the final stage of pressing. In order to attain density gain as high as possible during warm compaction, six rules for designing warm-compacting powder mixtures were proposed in detail.

Keywords

warm compaction / densification mechanism / powder mixture / designing rule

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