A sintered material includes a composition composed of iron-based alloy, and a texture containing 200 or more and 1350 or less of compound particles having a size of 0.3 μm or more per unit area of 100 μm×100 μm in a cross section, and a relative density is 93% or more.

Disclosed herein are embodiments of methods, devices, and assemblies for processing feedstock materials using microwave plasma processing. Specifically, the feedstock materials disclosed herein pertains to unique powder feedstocks such as Tantalum, Yttrium Stabilized Zirconia, Aluminum, water atomized alloys, Rhenium, Tungsten, and Molybdenum. Microwave plasma processing can be used to spheroidize and remove contaminants. Advantageously, microwave plasma processed feedstock can be used in various applications such as additive manufacturing or powdered metallurgy (PM) applications that require high powder flowability.

Methods are disclosed for making articles (2) by three-dimensional printing. The methods include three-dimensional printing a build powder mixture which includes a first material powder and a second material powder to form a printed article and subsequently heating the printed article to a temperature at which a sufficient amount of the second material powder melts to enable it to infiltrate throughout the interstices between the first material powder particles so that the article (2) achieves a room temperature relative density of at least 85 percent of its theoretical density, the theoretical density being the density the article (2) would have if it contained no porosity. The first material powder has a melting temperature, melting temperature range, or dissociation temperature which is higher than the melting temperature or melting temperature range of the second material powder and the first material powder has no more than a limited amount of solubility in the second material powder.

A method of manufacturing an austenitic iron alloy comprising placing austenitic iron alloy powder in a can, evacuating air and other gases from the can, supplying nitrogen gas into the can, sealing the can and then hot isostatically pressing the austenitic iron alloy powder in the can to diffuse the nitrogen into the austenitic iron alloy powder and to produce a nitrogen enriched austenitic iron alloy bar and removing the can from the nitrogen enriched austenitic iron alloy bar.

Disclosed is a partially diffusion-alloyed steel powder having excellent fluidity, formability, and compressibility without containing Ni, Cr, and Si. A partially diffusion-alloyed steel powder having excellent fluidity, formability, and compressibility that includes an iron-based powder and Mo diffusionally adhered to a surface of the iron-based powder, in which Mo content is 0.2 mass % to 2.0 mass %, a weight-based median diameter D50 is 40 μm or more, and among particles contained in the partially diffusion-alloyed steel powder, those particles having an equivalent circular diameter of 50 μm to 200 μm have a number average of solidity of 0.70 to 0.86, the solidity being defined as (particle cross-sectional area/envelope-inside area).

A method for producing a sintered member, including the steps of: preparing a raw powder; press-forming the raw powder to produce a green compact; and sintering the green compact by high-frequency induction heating, wherein temperature of the green compact in the sintering step is controlled to satisfy all the following conditions (I) to (III): (I) the temperature is increased without maintaining the temperature in a temperature range equal to or higher than an A.sub.1 point of an Fe—C phase diagram and lower than the sintering temperature of the green compact, (II) a heating rate is set to 12° C./s or more in a temperature range of the Ai point to an A.sub.3 point of the Fe—C phase diagram, and (III) a heating rate is set to 4° C./s or more in a temperature range of the A.sub.3 point of the Fe—C phase diagram to the sintering temperature of the green compact.

A method for preparing a rare earth anisotropic bonded magnetic powder, comprises the following steps: (1) preparing raw powder with RTBH as the main component, wherein, R is Nd or Pr/Nd, and T is a transition metal containing Fe; (2) adding La/Ce hydride and copper powder to the raw powder to form a mixture; (3) subjecting the mixture to atmosphere diffusion heat treatment to give the rare earth anisotropic bonded magnetic powder. The invention selects high-abundance rare earth elements La, Ce to replace Dy, Tb, Nd, Pr and other medium and heavy rare earth elements, which can achieve the same coercivity improvement effect while also significantly reducing the cost, thereby achieving efficient application of low-cost and high-abundance rare earths.

A method for preparing a rare earth anisotropic bonded magnetic powder, comprises the following steps: (1) preparing raw powder with RTBH as the main component, wherein, R is Nd or Pr/Nd, and T is a transition metal containing Fe; (2) adding La/Ce hydride and copper powder to the raw powder to form a mixture; (3) subjecting the mixture to atmosphere diffusion heat treatment to give the rare earth anisotropic bonded magnetic powder. The invention selects high-abundance rare earth elements La, Ce to replace Dy, Tb, Nd, Pr and other medium and heavy rare earth elements, which can achieve the same coercivity improvement effect while also significantly reducing the cost, thereby achieving efficient application of low-cost and high-abundance rare earths.

The present disclosure provides hard particles having improved wear resistance and a sintered sliding member using the hard particles. The present disclosure relates to a hard particle consisting of: 1% to 7% by mass of La, 30% to 50% by mass of Mo, 10% to 30% by mass of Ni, 10% by mass or less of Mn, 1.0% by mass or less of C, with the balance being unavoidable impurities and Co, and to a sintered sliding member using the hard particles.

A method for manufacturing a sintered component includes a step of making a green compact having a relative density of at least 88% by compression-molding a base powder containing a metal powder into a metallic die, a step of machining a groove part having a groove width of 1.0 mm or less in the green compact by processing groove with a cutting tool, and a step of sintering the green compact in which the groove part is formed after the step of forming the groove part.