Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:28:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-01-18Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:57:24Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 bukvic_g_me_bauru.pdf: 10769904 bytes, checksum: 62e0300f452d06ec5fe503cb8b56d8d5 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A usinagem de cerâmicas avançadas geralmente é feita com o objetivo de corrigir as deformações após a etapa de sinterização, conferir precisão dimensional e qualidade superficial. Para cumprir esta tarefa é utilizada, principalmente, a retificação com rebolo de diamante sob baixas taxas de remoção de material. O torneamento com ferramenta de diamante pode ser aplicado para a maioria das cerâmicas, mas esbarram em condições limites de remoção de material, como profundidade de corte nanamétricas, que se ultrapassadas mudam o regime de remoção de dúctil para frágil. Uma alternativa é a usinagem da peça no estado verde, a qual apresenta fácil usinagem com a diminuição da introdução de defeitos prejudiciais à resistência mecânica. Após a sinterização invariavelmente ocorrem distorções devido à distribuição heterogênea de gradientes de densidade que se localizam nas porções mais externas do compactado. Na tentativa de remover estes gradientes, o presente trabalho analisou a influência da remoção de sobrematerial no estado verde na distorção da peça após a sinterização. Corpos-de-prova de alumina, com 99,8% de pureza, foram torneados com sobremateriais de 1,0, 2,0 3,0, 4,0 e 5,0 mm por uma ferramenta de metal duro sob condições constantes de usinagem. Além da distorção, outras variáveis de saída foram analisadas, com desgaste de ferramenta, força de corte (Fc) e rugosidade média aritmética (Ra) do compactado em verde e sinterizado. Os resultados apontam uma redução da distorção da peça sinterizada de até 81,4% com o maior valor de remoção de sobrematerial em verde e a influência do desgaste da ferramenta na rugosidade da peça em verde e na correspondente peça sinterizada / Advanced ceramics machining is generally done with the objective of correcting distortions in pieces after sintering. In order to comply with this task grinding with a diamond grinding wheel is mainly used with low material removal rates. Turning can be done diamong tool to most of the ceramics, but is runs into very narrow material removal limit conditions, as nanometric cutting depths, which if exceeded change the removal system from ductile to brittle. An alternative is machining the piece on the green state, which presents easy machining without the introduction of harmful defects to mechanical resitance. However, after sintering there are invariably distortions caused by the heterogeneous distribution of density gradients that are located in the most outlying portions of the compacted. In an attempt to remove these gradients, this study examined the influence of different allowance values removed and the corresponding distortion after sintering. Alumina speciments are used for this procedure, with 99,8% purity, from which allowances of 1.0,2.0,3.0,4.0, 5.0 mm are removed by turning with a cermented carbine tool under constant machining conditions. Besides distortion, other output variables were analyzed, such as tool wear, cutting force and surface roughness of the green ceramics and the sintered. The results presents a reduction of the distortion of the sintered piece of 81,4% with the greater allowance removal values and the influence of tool wear on the green machining surface roughness and on the corresponding sintered piece

Orientador: Luiz Eduardo de Angelo Sanchez / Banca: Carlos Alberto Fortulan / Banca: Gilberto de Magalhães Bento Gonçalves / Resumo: A usinagem de cerâmicas avançadas geralmente é feita com o objetivo de corrigir as deformações após a etapa de sinterização, conferir precisão dimensional e qualidade superficial. Para cumprir esta tarefa é utilizada, principalmente, a retificação com rebolo de diamante sob baixas taxas de remoção de material. O torneamento com ferramenta de diamante pode ser aplicado para a maioria das cerâmicas, mas esbarram em condições limites de remoção de material, como profundidade de corte nanamétricas, que se ultrapassadas mudam o regime de remoção de dúctil para frágil. Uma alternativa é a usinagem da peça no estado verde, a qual apresenta fácil usinagem com a diminuição da introdução de defeitos prejudiciais à resistência mecânica. Após a sinterização invariavelmente ocorrem distorções devido à distribuição heterogênea de gradientes de densidade que se localizam nas porções mais externas do compactado. Na tentativa de remover estes gradientes, o presente trabalho analisou a influência da remoção de sobrematerial no estado verde na distorção da peça após a sinterização. Corpos-de-prova de alumina, com 99,8% de pureza, foram torneados com sobremateriais de 1,0, 2,0 3,0, 4,0 e 5,0 mm por uma ferramenta de metal duro sob condições constantes de usinagem. Além da distorção, outras variáveis de saída foram analisadas, com desgaste de ferramenta, força de corte (Fc) e rugosidade média aritmética (Ra) do compactado em verde e sinterizado. Os resultados apontam uma redução da distorção da peça sinterizada de até 81,4% com o maior valor de remoção de sobrematerial em verde e a influência do desgaste da ferramenta na rugosidade da peça em verde e na correspondente peça sinterizada / Abstract: Advanced ceramics machining is generally done with the objective of correcting distortions in pieces after sintering. In order to comply with this task grinding with a diamond grinding wheel is mainly used with low material removal rates. Turning can be done diamong tool to most of the ceramics, but is runs into very narrow material removal limit conditions, as nanometric cutting depths, which if exceeded change the removal system from ductile to brittle. An alternative is machining the piece on the green state, which presents easy machining without the introduction of harmful defects to mechanical resitance. However, after sintering there are invariably distortions caused by the heterogeneous distribution of density gradients that are located in the most outlying portions of the compacted. In an attempt to remove these gradients, this study examined the influence of different allowance values removed and the corresponding distortion after sintering. Alumina speciments are used for this procedure, with 99,8% purity, from which allowances of 1.0,2.0,3.0,4.0, 5.0 mm are removed by turning with a cermented carbine tool under constant machining conditions. Besides distortion, other output variables were analyzed, such as tool wear, cutting force and surface roughness of the green ceramics and the sintered. The results presents a reduction of the distortion of the sintered piece of 81,4% with the greater allowance removal values and the influence of tool wear on the green machining surface roughness and on the corresponding sintered piece / Mestre

This master’s thesis deals with production of ferrite cores by the powder metallurgy technology in EPCOS s.r.o. Šumperk. Special importance is given to powder compaction process through uniaxial cold pressing in a rigid die. The production company is introduced in the first part and is followed by a study of pressure propagation in a powder bed during uniaxial pressing, then the analysis of critical phases of compaction process in terms of green cracks and compact’s defects follows. Main test methods of compact’s green strength are also presented. Significant part of the master’s thesis deals with an analysis of a powder technological properties’ testing method. For that purpose, an instrumented compaction device called Powder Testing Center (PTC, KZK Powder Tech Corp.) is used. A new pressing tool of smaller diameter was made and mounted to the experimental press; also the testing technique, procedure and certificate of powder’s properties was slightly changed. Technological property called advanced compactibility of powder is introduced. Decision about suitability of powder for uniaxial pressing process is made upon the value of newly introduced coefficient of advanced compactibility . Compact’s green strength is evaluated by a proposed contract bend test method, which uses cylindrical-shaped testing pieces with high height-to-diameter ratio. The results from both testing methods show the impact of additional granulate adjustment on green strength and heterogeneity of density distribution along axial direction. Implementation of gained knowledge to production process led to more than 40 % cost savings in term 2/2016 – 4/2016 in comparison with term 8/2015 – 11/2015, because of lowering the number of scrap parts from KLY material due to crack reduction.

Cette étude s’intéresse à l’amélioration et l’allégement des protections balistiques transparentes. L’utilisation conventionnelle de verre assure une haute efficacité face à un projectile, cependant associée à une masse élevée et à une forte épaisseur du blindage. Le remplacement de la face avant par une céramique polycristalline, telle que le spinelle MgAl2O4, assure un gain de performance et une réduction du volume de l’assemblage. L’élaboration de ce matériau requiert la combinaison d’une haute qualité optique dans le domaine du visible et de propriétés mécaniques élevées. Dans ce travail, l’application d’un frittage naturel sous vide d’une poudre commerciale de haute pureté a permis de limiter l’introduction d’impuretés néfastes à la transparence et la croissance granulaire. Une étape supplémentaire de pressage isostatique à chaud s’est montrée nécessaire à l’élimination des pores résiduels et à l’obtention de spinelles transparents de haute qualité optique (80% à 400-800 nm, e = 2 mm, Ø21 mm). Une étude de la microstructure avant et après post-traitement a permis de mettre en relation la taille des grains et des pores avant post-frittage avec la croissance granulaire observée pendant ce traitement. Une optimisation du procédé a ainsi pu être mise en place afin de limiter l’augmentation de la taille des grains et obtenir une microstructure homogène (~ 12 μm). Après un changement des dimensions des échantillons réussi (e = 4 mm, Ø60 mm), différents spinelles à propriétés microstructurales et mécaniques distinctes ont été sélectionnés pour une évaluation en conditions balistiques. / This work focuses on the improvement and the lightening of transparent ballistic armours. The conventional use of glass provides high efficiency against a projectile, however associated with a heavy and thick armour. The replacement of the strike face by a polycrystalline ceramic, such as MgAl2O4 spinel, leads to a performance gain and a decrease of the protection volume. The development of this material requires the combination of a high optical quality in the visible domain and high mechanical properties. In this work, pressureless sintering under vacuum of a high purity commercial powder allowed to minimize the addition of impurities, detrimental to the transparency, and the grain growth phenomenon. An additional step of hot isostatic pressing was necessary to eliminate residual porosity and to obtain transparent spinel with high optical quality (80% at 400-800 nm, t = 2 mm, Ø21 mm). An analysis of the microstructure before and after the post-treatment made it possible to determine the link between the grain and pore sizes before post-sintering and the observed grain growth during this treatment. An optimisation of the process was established in order to restrain the grain size increase, and thus to obtain a homogeneous microstructure (~ 12 μm). After a successful up-scaling of the samples (t = 4 mm, Ø60 mm), several spinel samples with distinctive microstructural and mechanical properties were selected in order to evaluate their performances through ballistic tests.