Modelling the high temperature flow behaviour of sintered Cu–28Zn pre-alloyed powder compacts considering the effect of strain

Abstract

In the field of the deformation process modelling, constitutive equations tend to be utilised as a calculation basis for the estimation of the materials’ flow responses. This holds also for powder metallurgy products. Hence, in this study, the flow behaviour of sintered Cu–28Zn pre-alloyed powder compacts was investigated by a collection of isothermal hot compression tests in the temperature range of 550–850°C at strain rates of 0.001, 0.01, 0.1 and 0.5 s⁻¹ up to the true strain of 0.6. For the sintered part with a predefined porosity of 9.4%, the impacts of the temperature and strain rate on the deformation behaviour were shown by the Zener–Hollomon parameter in an exponent-type equation. As a result, a model was developed to predict the high temperature flow behaviour of the Cu–28Zn pre-alloyed powder compact. The results indicated that the strain-dependent constitutive equations are in good conformity with the experimental results.