Characterizing physico-chemical or mechanical properties of metallic powders and sintered bearing materials
Metal powder characterization
Your expectations
For a particular mechanical part produced by sintering, you want to know, check or qualify:
• characteristics of pure or mixed powder
• material properties after forming
Our solutions
Powders before sintering:
• SEM qualitative analysis with X-ray microanalysis (EDS method)
• apparent density
• grain size distribution
Sintered materials:
• macro and microstructure analysis (distribution, grain size, morphology, inclusions, porosity ratio)
• analytic mapping through x-ray microanalysis, qualitative and quantitative analyses
• hardness measurement (even light-load hardness measurement), hardness survey
• tensile test on probes
• break surface and coating microfractography (X-ray microanalysis, G=900 to 900 000)
• testing standards for sintered materials
• apparent density of sintered parts
• porosity ratio of sintered materials (with an accuracy of 1%)
Your benefits
• Cetim offers standardized or specifically adapted tests according to your demands
• we have specific laboratory facilities (SEM, vacuum coating machine, electronic sieving machine, densimeter)
• our multidisciplinary approach with, beyond powder characterization, various skills in counselling, support for material and process selection and testing (we own a test bench mounted on an adiabatic press)
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Metal powder characterization
