Consolidation of mechanically alloyed Al-15at%Cr powder using impact and static high pressures Y. Minamino 1 , S. Yamada 1 , T. Yamane 2 , K. Hisayuki 2 , M. Kiritani 3 and M. Komatu 3 1 Department of Adaptive Machine Systems, Graduate school of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hiroshima Institute of Technology, 2-1-1 Miyake, Saeki-ku, Hiroshima 731-5143, Japan 3 Academic Frontier Research Center for Ultra-high speed Plastic Deformation, Hiroshima Institute of Technology, 2-1-1 Miyake, Saeki-ku, Hiroshima 731-5143, Japan Abstract The powder of Al-15at%Cr amorphous with nanocrystalline Cr was prepared from a pure Al and Cr mixed powder by mechanical alloying using a high energy planetary ball mill, and it was consolidated by the static high pressure up to 2GPa and impact high pressures. Improved compacts were obtained. However, they have unknown phases induced by static high pressures, or decomposition phases due to local heat generation by impact high pressures. Their Vickers hardness are about 5000 MPa Vickers, which is quite high when compared with the hardness of 180 MPa Vickers for commercial metal. Keywords: static high pressure, dynamical high pressure, mechanical alloying, Al-15at%Cr alloy, amorphous, shear band, heat generation, decomposition, relative density
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