Iranian Journal of Materials Science and Engineering

NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF COMBUSTION SYNTHESIS OF ALUMINIDE INTERMETALLIC COMPOUNDS

M. R. Aboutalebi

Combustion synthesis is a special thermophysico-chemical process applied for production of intermetallic compounds. In the present work, a reaction–diffusion numerical model was developed to analyze the combustion synthesis of aluminide intermetallics by self-propagating high-temperature synthesis process. In order to verify the reliability of the numerical model, an experimental setup was designed and used to perform the combustion synthesis of nickel and titanium aluminides. The developed model was further used to determine the temperature history of a powder mixture compact during self-propagating high-temperature synthesis. The effect of compact relative density on combustion temperature and wave propagation velocity was also studied.

A STUDY ON THE ALUMINIZING OF ELECTRODEPOSITED NICKELAT 500 oC

A. Amadeh

Abstract:
nanocrystalline nickel samples with the grain size of ~25 nm were prepared via direct current electrodeposition and
aluminized for different durations by pack cementation method at 500
means of SEM, EDS and XRD techniques. According to results, short time aluminizing resulted in the formation of a
single aluminide layer whereas at long duration two distinct aluminide layers were formed. The growth kinetics of the
coating was non-parabolic at short times while it obeyed the parabolic law at long duration. The parabolic growth
rate constant of single phase coating formed on electrodeposited samples was about 30 ìm / h1/2 approximately 3 times
greater than the data reported for coarse grained nickel (8.4 ìm / h1/2). Meanwhile, the overall growth rate constant
was decreased to 11.7 ìm / h1/2, when double aluminide layers formed on nanocrystalline nickel.
In this research, aluminizing behavior of ultra fine-grained nickel was investigated. For this purpose,oC. The aluminide layers were examined by

THE EFFECT OF AGING TREATMENT ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OFAA6082 ALLOY: MODELINGAND EXPERIMENT

Karimi Taheri

Abstract:
properties of AA6082 aluminum alloy. Considering that aging phenomenon affects the distribution of alloying element
in matrix, and the fact that different distribution of alloying elements has different impediments to dislocation
movement, a material model based on microstructure, has been developed in this research. A relative volume fraction
or mean radius of precipitations is introduced into the flow stress by using the appropriate relationships. The GA-based
optimization technique is used to evaluate the material constants within the equations from the uni-axial tensile test
data of AA6082 alloy. Finally, using the proposed model with optimized constants, the flow behavior of the alloy at
different conditions of heat treatment is predicted. The results predicted by the model showed a good agreement with
experimental data, indicating the capability of the model in prediction of the material flow behavior after different heat
treatment cycles. Also, the calculated flow stress was used for determination of the material property in Abaqus
Software to analyze the uniaxial compression test. The force- displacement curves of the analysis were compared to
the experimental data obtained in the same condition, and a good agreement was found between the two sets of results.
A novel constitutive equation has been proposed to predict the effect of aging treatment on mechanical

EVALUATION OF THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF NIOBIUM MODIFIED CAST AISI H 13 HOT WORK TOOL STEEL

Sh. Kheirandish

Abstract:

mechanical properties of AISIH 13 hot-work tool steel have been studied. Cast samples made of the modified new steel were homogenized and austenitized at different conditions, followed by tempering at the specified temperature ranges. Hardness, red hardness, three point bending test and Charpy impact test were carried out to evaluate the mechanical properties together with characterizing the microstructure of the modified steel using scanning electron microscope. The results show that niobium addition modifies the cast structure of Nb–alloyed steel, and increases its maximum hardness. It was found that bending strength bending strain, impact strength, and red hardness of the modified cast steel are also higher than those of the cast H13 steel, and lower than those of the wrought H13 steel.

In this research, the effects of partially replacing of vanadium and molybdenum with niobium on the

EFFECT OF MECHANICAL ACTIVATION ON THE KINETICS OF LEACHINGOFCHALCOPYRITE IN THE FERRIC SULFATE MEDIA

M.Sh. Bafghi

Abstract:
has been investigated. It has been shown that the mechanism of leaching reaction is diffusion through the product layer
and does not undergo any change as a result of mechanical activation in a wide range of experimental conditions.
Leaching rate is strongly influenced by milling intensity and the effect of ball to powder mass ratio is stronger than
milling time. Curve fitting of experimental data shows that leaching rate constant is approximately a linear function
of ball to powder mass ratio, while it obeys a power function with regard to the milling time.
The kinetics of chalcopyrite leaching in a ferric sulfate media for raw and mechanically activated samples

EFFECT OF FUELS ON THE COMBUSTION SYNTHESIS OF NiAL2O4 SPINEL PARTICLES

A. Samson Nesaraj

Abstract:
as magnetic materials, semiconductors, pigments, catalysts, refractories and electronic ceramics. In this paper, we
reported the preparation of NiAl
The resulting powder was chracterized by XRD, particle size analysis and SEM. The XRD patterns show that the
combustion technique was excellent to prepare single – phased cubic NiAl
found to be around 14 nm. From the particle size analysis, it was found that the 50 % of the particles lie below 30
µm. The micrographs show the formation of fluffy agglomerates composed of fine particles.
Spinels constitute an advanced group of materials with great technologial appeal, being able to be applied2O4 spinels by low temperature combustion technique using glycine and urea as fuels.2O4 particles and the crystallite sizes were

STUDY ON ELECTROWINNING OF COBALT BY CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRYTECHNIQUE

M. Nusheh*

Abstract:
the competition between the precipitation of cobalt ions and evolution of hydrogen gas on the cathode surface during
the reduction process in a sulfate bath, investigation on the mechanism of metal precipitation is of great importance.
In the present work, study on the kinetics of cobalt electrowinning and the mechanism of the involved reactions have
been carried out. The obtained results, confirm the mechanism of cobalt precipitation by depletion of hydroxides. The
effects of temperature and scan rate parameters were studied on electrowinning of cobalt by cyclic voltammetry
technique. The diffusion coefficient and rate constant of the reactions were measured and calculated by performed
experiments.
Nowadays cobalt is mostly produced through the electrowinning process of sulfate solutions. Regarding to