Mechanical alloying of the fe-cr mixture and stabilization of the sintered nanostructure by carbon addition

Abstract

he present work concerns the mechanical alloying of the iron-chromium mixture (Fe20% Cr) and the evolution of the crystallite size before and after sintering at high temperature. A study was conducted on the stability of the nanostructure of the sintered material. The effect of adding carbon on the structure and the crystallite size was studied for the sintered material. The X-ray diffraction technique was used to identify the new phases and measure the crystallite size as well as the microstrains induced by mechanical alloying. Scanning electron microscopy revealed structural changes in the milled and sintered material.