EP1031393B1 - Préparation de mousses métalliques - Google Patents
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- EP1031393B1 EP1031393B1 EP00102816A EP00102816A EP1031393B1 EP 1031393 B1 EP1031393 B1 EP 1031393B1 EP 00102816 A EP00102816 A EP 00102816A EP 00102816 A EP00102816 A EP 00102816A EP 1031393 B1 EP1031393 B1 EP 1031393B1
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
- B22F—WORKING METALLIC POWDER; MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES FROM METALLIC POWDER; MAKING METALLIC POWDER; APPARATUS OR DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR METALLIC POWDER
- B22F3/00—Manufacture of workpieces or articles from metallic powder characterised by the manner of compacting or sintering; Apparatus specially adapted therefor ; Presses and furnaces
- B22F3/10—Sintering only
- B22F3/11—Making porous workpieces or articles
- B22F3/1121—Making porous workpieces or articles by using decomposable, meltable or sublimatable fillers
- B22F3/1125—Making porous workpieces or articles by using decomposable, meltable or sublimatable fillers involving a foaming process
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
- B22F—WORKING METALLIC POWDER; MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES FROM METALLIC POWDER; MAKING METALLIC POWDER; APPARATUS OR DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR METALLIC POWDER
- B22F2999/00—Aspects linked to processes or compositions used in powder metallurgy
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- the invention relates to a method for producing Metal foams.
- DE 197 44 300 A deals with the manufacture and use of porous light metal parts or light metal alloy parts, being made from a powder mixture (Light metal or Al alloy and blowing agent) pressed Body in a heated closed vessel with inlet and Outlet opening at temperatures above the decomposition temperature of the blowing agent and / or melting temperature of the metal or the alloy are heated.
- JP 03017236 A describes a method for production metallic article with cavities by placing gases in a Metal melt dissolves and then the foaming process by sudden Reduces pressure. Cooling of the melt stabilized the foam thus obtained.
- WO 92/21457 teaches the production of Al foam or Al alloy foam by blowing gas under the surface of a molten metal, whereby abrasives, such as. B. SiC, ZrO 2 , etc., serve as stabilizers.
- Foam aluminum becomes molten aluminum after infiltration into a porous filler by removing it obtained from the solidified metal (Zhuzao Bianjibu (1997) (2) 1-4; ZHUZET, ISSN: 1001-4977).
- the processes involving precompacting propellants Provide green bodies that are complex and costly not suitable for the production of bulk goods. Besides, is common to these processes is that the desired temperature difference between the melting point of the metal to be foamed and the decomposition temperature of the blowing agent used if possible should be low, otherwise it is already during compacting or later disruptive blowing agent decomposition in the melting phase takes place.
- the infiltration technology should also be assessed from this perspective, in which one painstakingly removes the porous filler from the foam matrix must remove.
- the dissolving or blowing in of propellant gases in molten metal is not suitable for the production of near-net shape workpieces, because a System consisting of the melt with occluded gas bubbles, is not sufficiently stable in time to be used in shaping tools to be processed.
- the above object is thus achieved in a first embodiment by a method for producing metal foams, wherein one or more metal powders, optionally applied with more or less lumpy metallic or non-metallic, e.g. B. mineral aggregates, mixed with a gas-releasing blowing agent, the mixture in an open or closed form, if necessary preheated to a temperature below the decomposition temperature of the blowing agent, the mixture is then heated to a temperature above the melting temperature of the low-melting metal, that the temperature difference between the equilibrium decomposition temperature of the blowing agent and the melting temperature of the metal or the melting temperature of the lowest-melting metal in a metal mixture is bridged in a period of time that is shorter than the time required to reach the equilibrium state in the blowing agent / propellant system at this temperature is required and cools the metal foam obtained to a temperature below the melting point of the lowest-melting metal.
- one or more metal powders optionally applied with more or less lumpy metallic or non-metallic, e.g. B. mineral aggregates, mixed
- the method according to the invention dispenses with methods which are described in the metal matrix to be foamed for the construction of a Propellant pressure counteracting mechanical resistance are responsible.
- Essential to the present invention is, however, that the temperature difference between the equilibrium decomposition temperature of the blowing agent and the melting temperature of the metal or the melting temperature of the lowest melting point Metal in a metal mixture in one Time span that is shorter than the time that is to achieve equilibrium in the propellant // propellant system at this temperature is required.
- the rapid reaching of the melting temperature of the lowest melting Metal in a metal mixture to be foamed advantageously allows the use of end matrix compatible Components (unmelted metal particles) than that Nucleation promoting the uniformity of the metal foam.
- reaction mass is heated quickly induction heating or bombardment with laser radiation.
- reaction heat of a fast, strongly exothermic Process e.g. aluminothermic reduction
- Magnesium hydride used as a gas-releasing blowing agent the is commercially available.
- metal hydrides for example titanium hydride
- carbonates for example calcium carbonate, potassium carbonate, Sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, hydrates, for example Aluminum sulfate hydrate, alum, aluminum hydroxide or easily evaporating substances, for example mercury compounds or powdered organic substances used become.
- the gas-releasing Blowing agent contains the same metal ions as for the melting metal are provided.
- Blowing agent is usually very low. So that's enough Blowing agent proportions in the order of several tenths Weight percent usually from. As particularly cheap in For the purposes of the present invention, amounts of blowing agent have increased from 0.1 to 10% by weight, in particular 0.2 to 5% by weight on metal powder.
- steel with a melting point of 1500 ° C. to 1600 ° C. can be foamed using magnesium hydride ( decomposition ⁇ 280 ° C.) as a blowing agent if a small amount of MgH 2 is added to a powdered THERMIT® mixture and then the ignition of the reaction mixture initiates the aluminothermic reduction of iron oxide to iron.
- magnesium hydride decomposition ⁇ 280 ° C.
- the one obtained after cooling and sawed in the longitudinal direction Regulus according to FIG. 1 contains hydride decomposition Gas pores in metallic iron.
- this embodiment of the invention opens that wide field of "reactive foaming" of metals, with a exothermic process (e.g. a reduction) temporally and spatially to the foaming process (blowing agent decomposition and formation of the molten metal) is coupled.
- a exothermic process e.g. a reduction
- the mechanical dispensable according to the inventive method Pretreatment of the foam-forming mixture leaves almost Any shape for the foamed semi-finished products and prepares the way to mass production.
- Another embodiment of the present invention relates hence a foam-shaped semi-finished metal product that is used of the method according to the invention is available.
- the quality of the metal foam obtained using the new process depends, for example on the cooling rate of the metal mass.
- Fig. 1 shows the longitudinal profile of the porous steel body.
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- Procédé pour la préparation de mousses métalliques consistant à
mélanger une ou plusieurs poudre(s) métallique(s), le cas échéant additionnée(s) de plus ou moins de matières additives métalliques ou non métalliques, par exemple minérales en morceaux, avec un agent porogène libérant un gaz,
préchauffer le mélange dans un moule ouvert ou fermé, le cas échéant à une température inférieure à la température de décomposition de l'agent porogène,
chauffer ensuite le mélange à une température supérieure à la température de fusion du métal fondant à la température la plus basse, de telle sorte que le différence de température entre la température de décomposition à l'équilibre de l'agent porogène et la température de fusion du métal ou la température de fusion du métal fondant à la température la plus basse dans un mélange de métaux, soit « couverte » dans un laps de temps qui est inférieur au temps nécessaire pour atteindre l'état d'équilibre dans le système agent porogène//gaz porogène à cette température, et
refroidir la mousse métallique obtenue à une température inférieure au point de fusion du métal fondant à la température la plus basse. - Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que l'on effectue l'apport d'énergie pour la fusion du métal par chauffage par induction, rayonnement laser et/ou chaleur d'une réaction chimique.
- Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que l'on utilise, comme agent porogène libérant un gaz, des hydrures métalliques, en particulier des hydrures de magnésium, des carbonates, des hydrates et/ou des substances qui s'évaporent à la température de réaction.
- Procédé selon une ou plusieurs des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que l'on utilise l'agent porogène libérant un gaz en une quantité de 0,1 à 10% en poids, en particulier 0,2 à 5% en poids, rapporté à la poudre métallique.
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