International Scientific Journals
of Scientific Technical Union of Mechanical Engineering "Industry 4.0"

The impact of current shape during consolidation of Fe – Ti – C – B system materials on the physio-mechanical properties of obtained specimens is studied in present paper. It is experimentally found that the use of method of decrease of voltage surge on output Schottky diodes of SPS device and the decrease of operation time of overcurrent protection in power circuit of SPS generator allowed changing current harmonic composition which lead to an increase of properties of consolidated Fe – Ti – C – B specimens – porosity decreased from 15.8 to 2.8 %, hardness increased from 50 to 55 HRC, loss of mass during abrasive wear decreased from 2 to 0.5 mass. %, and bending strength increased from 750 to 1500 MPa. It is found out that increase of input power during consolidation from 1.3 to 7.5 kJ/s by changing current harmonic composition leads to an increase of physico-mechanical characteristics of Fe – Ti – C – B system metalmatrix composites. Density of consolidated specimens increased from 75 to 95 %, their hardness increased from 35 to 50 HRC, loss of mass during abrasive wear decreased from 10 to 1 mass. % and their bending strength increased from 400 to 1100 MPa.

Regularities of the influence of spark plasma sintering heating rate on the structure and properties of dispersion-strengthened materials based on Fe – Ti – C – (B) system are studied. Increasing heating rate of the samples from 10 °C/s to 20 °C/s induced by increasing current rise rate leads to decrease the average grain size in the material matrix of the Fe – Ti – C – B system from 2.5 to 1.5 microns. This allows to increase hardness from 48 HRC up to 70 HRC and wear resistance 7 times compared to R6M5 (full analog of HSS M2) steel during SPS consolidation in the mode with a heating rate of 20 °C/s and isothermal exposure 1100 °C for 180 s.