Advantages and Disadvantages Powder Metallurgy
Advantages and Disadvantages Powder Metallurgy
Advantages and Disadvantages Powder Metallurgy
Advantages
Parts can be produced from high melting point refractory metals with respectively
less difficulty and at having a low cost.
Production rates are quite higher even for complex parts primarily because of the
use of automated equipment in the process.
Near net shape components are produced while the dimensional tolerances are
such that no further machining is needed while your scrap is almost negligible.
Parts can have a variety of compositions. It is much easier to have parts of
desired mechanical and physical properties like density, hardness toughness,
stiffness, damping, and specific electrical or magnetic properties.
Parts can also be produced with impregnation and infiltration of other materials to
obtain special characteristics needed for specific applications.
Requirement of skilled machinists is much , so labor cost is low
Parts with controlled porosity can be produced
Bi-metallic products, sintered carbides and porous bearings can be produced
only by this process.
Disadvantages.
Cost of metal powders are high as compared to raw material while some of them
are difficult to store having some deterioration.
Tooling and equipment are high which particularly a limit when production
volumes are small.
Large or complex shaped parts are difficult to produce by PM process.
Lower ductility and strength cab be seen in parts than those produced by forging.
Uniformly high – density products are difficult to produce.
Some powders (such as aluminum, magnesium, titanium and zirconium) in a
finally divided state present can cause fire hazard and risk of explosion.
Low melting point metal powders (such as of zinc, tin, cadmium) give thermal
difficulties while performing sintering operation, as most oxides of these metals
cannot be reduced at temperatures below the melting point.