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8.0 POWDER PROCESSING

CHAPTER 8 : POWDER PROCESSING

8.1 INTRODUCTION

Powder processes products are today used in a wide range of industries, from automotive
and aerospace applications to power tools and household appliances. Controllable
characteristics of products prepared using various powder technologies include mechanical,
magnetic, and other unconventional properties of such materials as porous solids,

aggregates, and intermetallic compounds. Competitive characteristics of manufacturing
processing (e.g., tool wear, complexity, or vendor options) also may be closely regulated.
Example of typical product made using powder processes include connecting rods, piston
rings, gears, cams, bushings, bearings, surgical implants, magnets and metal filters (Figure
8.1).

Figure 8.1 Example of typical product made using powder processes.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
The objectives of this unit are to :

1. describe methods of producing metal powders;
2. indentify several type of powder metallurgy part and component widely used in
market;
3. define common ceramic materials in industry;

4. identify the application of ceramic product;
5. identify manufacturing processes of ceramic materials.

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