Hot rolling of porous copper strips prepared from cuprous oxide perform

Abstract

The hot-rolling behaviour of porous copper strips prepared by the combined reduction and sintering of a cuprous oxide preform has been studied. It is shown that the porous copper strips can sustain large amounts of hot–rolling deformation in a single pass without any significant edge cracking. Changes in mechanical properties during hot rolling have been determined and optimum conditions for full densification of the porous strip have been established. A mechanism for densification of the strip during hot rolling has also been suggested.

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