Abstract
Electric field-assisted sintering has ubiquitous merits over conventional sintering technology for the fabrication of difficult-to-deform materials. To investigate the effect of sintering pressure and temperature on the densification of Inconel 718 superalloy, a numerical simulation model was established based on the Fleck-Kuhn-McMeeking (FKM) and Gurson-Tvergaard-Needleman (GTN) models, which covers a wide range of porosity. At a sintering pressure below 50 MPa or a sintering temperature below 950 °C, the average porosity of the sintered superalloy is over 0.17 with low densification. Under a pressure above 110 MPa and a temperature above 1250 °C, the sintered superalloy quickly completes densification and enters the plastic yield stage, making it difficult to control the sintering process. When the pressure is above 70 MPa while the temperature exceeds 1150 °C, the average porosity is 0.11, with little fall when the pressure or temperature rises. The experimental results indicated that the relative density of the sintered superalloy under 70 MPa and 1150 °C is 94.46%, and the proportion of the grain size below 10 μm is 73%. In addition, the yield strength of the sintered sample is 512 MPa, the compressive strength comes to 1260 MPa when the strain is over 0.8, and the microhardness is 395 Hv, demonstrating a better mechanical property than the conventional superalloy.
Highlights
Inconel 718 superalloy is a nickel-chromium-iron-based superalloy, which is widely used in aviation engines, nuclear power and other precision equipment and instruments due to its good fatigue, creep properties and corrosion resistance under extreme temperatures and pressures [1,2]
The FKM model was combined with the porous plastic GTN model to establish a numerical simulation model for characterizing the electric field-assisted sintering process of Inconel 718 superalloy covering a larger range of porosity, which was used to analyze the densification progress of the metal powder sintering process and the geometric nonlinearity caused by large displacement
We mainly focused on the effects of sintering pressure and temperature on the densification of Inconel 718 alloy
Summary
Inconel 718 superalloy is a nickel-chromium-iron-based superalloy, which is widely used in aviation engines, nuclear power and other precision equipment and instruments due to its good fatigue, creep properties and corrosion resistance under extreme temperatures and pressures [1,2]. Monte Carlo dynamics model regards pore migration, radiation effect, relative density, grain boundary energy, curvature and surface energy as core sintering parameters This method can process hundreds of non-spherical particles. The FKM model was combined with the porous plastic GTN model to establish a numerical simulation model for characterizing the electric field-assisted sintering process of Inconel 718 superalloy covering a larger range of porosity, which was used to analyze the densification progress of the metal powder sintering process and the geometric nonlinearity caused by large displacement. V where V is the volume of the conductor It is seen from Equations (10) and (11) that the electric and the thermal field can be coupled through the conductivity λ, which determines the relative density and the sintering temperature
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