OBTAINMENT, MACHINING AND WEAR OF METAL MATRIX COMPOSITES PROCESSED BY POWDER METALLURGY. / OBTENÇÃO, USINAGEM E DESGASTE DE MATERIAIS COMPÓSITOS DE MATRIZ METÁLICA PROCESSADOS VIA METALURGIA DO PÓ.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1998

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The aim of this investigation was the obtainment of metal matrix composites (MMC) by the route of powder metallurgy, and the valuation of these materials with relation to their machining and wear characteristics. Firstly, were obtained pure comercial aluminium matrix composites materials, with 5, 10 and 15% volumectric fraction of silicon carbide particles. Was also obtained a material without reinforcement particles in order to verify by comparison, the influence of adittion of reinforcement particles. The obtained materials were characterized physics (hidrostatic density), mechanics (hardness and tensile tests) and microstructurally (optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy). The results showed a homogeneous distribution of reinforcement particles in the composite, and improvement in the mechanical properties, mainly tensile strength (UTS) in comparison to the unreinforced material. After, tests were made to verify the materials behavior during machining and to check the performance of several tool materials (cemented carbide, ceramics and polycrystalline diamond). In these tests, values of the cutting force were measured by instrumented tool-holders. Phenomena such as tool wear, built-up edge formation and mechanism of chip formation were also observed and evaluated. The results from the cemented carbide tool tests, were utilisated for the machinability index determination of each material. These results were applied to the Taylor equation and the equation constants for each material and test conditions were determinated. The results showed that the inclusion of silicon carbide particles made extremely difficult the machining of the composites, and only with diamond tool, satisfactory results were obtained. At last, wear tests were performed to verify the influence of the reinforcement particles in the characteristics of wear resistance of the materials. The results obtained were utilized in the wear coefficient determination for each material. The results showed an improvement in wear resistance, with the increase in volume fraction of reinforcement particles.

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carbide matrix composite silicon desgaste silício compósito powder matriz wear metal machining metalurgia usinagem metallurgy carboneto metal aluminium alumínio pó

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