Reducing debinding time in thick components fabricated by powder injection molding
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Asghar Safarian
, Mehmet Subaşi und Çetin Karataş
Abstract
Of the five steps in powder injection molding, namely feedstock formulation, mixing, injection, debinding and sintering, the one which markedly demands more time is debinding. Studying the effect of specimen thickness on debinding time in the current study, 316L stainless steel feedstock was exploited as the material for fabrication cylindrical specimens with varying thicknesses ranging from 2 to 10 mm. The thicker the specimen, the more time-consuming the debinding is. In addition, a novel method has been presented to produce thick components with large sections by powder injection molding, using preformed inserts in the injection stage. By using a wrought insert on which the feedstock is injected, the thickness of the injected section in need of debinding decreased while the whole thickness of the component was still large. Finally, defect-free specimens with diameter of 20 mm have been fabricated using inserts with different sizes, which resulted in dramatic reduction of debinding time from several days to only some hours. Moreover, it revealed that the interface of the insert and injected section was bonded properly, reaching more than 400 MPa of shear strength, depending on insert/part diameter ratio.
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- Contents
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- Original Contributions
- Thermodynamic description of the Ti–O system
- Influence of MgO on the phase equilibria in the CuOx–FeOy–MgO–SiO2 system in equilibrium with copper alloy – Part I: methodology and liquidus in the tridymite primary phase field
- Experimental phase diagram of the V–Si–Ho ternary system
- Experimental study of the phase relationships in the Al-rich corner of the Al–Si–Fe–Cr quaternary system at 700 °C
- Effect of quench–ageing treatment on the microstructure and properties of Zn-15Al-3Cu alloy
- Grain growth and thermal stability in nanocrystalline Fe–B alloys prepared by melt spinning
- Microatmosphere sintering of Fe-3.2Mn-1.5Si-0.5C steel in flowing technical nitrogen
- Structural, thermal and optical studies of nanocomposite powder NiSb + Sb produced by mechanical alloying
- Effect of Mo/B atomic ratio on the properties of Mo2NiB2-based cermets
- Improving the stoichiometry of RF-sputtered amorphous alumina thin films by thermal annealing
- Assessment on the contact factors of a sandwich soft finger model – An experimental investigation
- Reducing debinding time in thick components fabricated by powder injection molding
- Short Communications
- Rapid synthesis of Ag nanoparticles and Ag@SiO2 core–shells
- Electrical conductivity of bismuth doped dysprosia stabilized zirconia as an electrolyte material for SOFC
- People
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lorenz Singheiser on the occasion of his 65th birthday
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