A fundamental study has been undertaken to determine enhancement of diffusion of alloying elements in mixed high speed steel–iron powder mixtures. Apparent diffusion coefficients were obtained by making simple diffusion couples. The data confirms that enhanced diffusion is observed and possible reasons for those observations are discussed.
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