Abstract
Movement behavior of AISI 316L stainless steel powder under hot isostatic pressing (HIP) were investigated using finite element analysis (FEA). The analysis, which was based on the porous metal yield criterion, was carried out in the FEA program. Density distributions, deformations and displacements of compact were discussed. The evolution of displacement for some typical positions in the compact was also studied in this paper. The calculation results show that thermal expansion plays an important role at the early stage of HIP. There are large displacements for powder compact during the ramp stage and the early holding stage in the HIP cycle. Correspondingly, the improvement of densification increases significantly. Simulation results for the shape change and average density of a sample were also compared with experiment.
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