PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Michalcová, Alena
AU  - Knaislová, Anna
AU  - Marek, Ivo
AU  - Veselka, Zbyněk
AU  - Vavřík, Jaroslav
AU  - Bastl, Tadeáš
AU  - Hrdlička, Tomáš
AU  - Kučera, Daniel
AU  - Luwan Sun, Luana
AU  - Vojtěch, Dalibor
TI  - Powder Metallurgy Prepared Al Alloys and Their "Self-Healing" Possibilities
DP  - 2017 Oct 1
TA  - Manufacturing Technology Journal
PG  - 782--786
VI  - 17
IP  - 5
AID - 10.21062/ujep/x.2017/a/1213-2489/MT/17/5/782
IS  - 12132489
AB  - Microstructure and mechanical properties of powder metallurgically prepared AlSi24Fe3 alloy are presented in this article. The alloy was prepared in form of rapidly solidified ribbons by melt spinning process. Consequently, the ribbons were crushed into powder in a ball mill and compacted by spark plasma sintering. Grain size of prepared alloy was less than 1 μm, Vickers hardness HV0.1 reached value 214, yield strength and ultimate compressive strength were 611 and 778 MPa, respectively. To obtain material with possible self-healing proprerties, it was necessary to enrich material by fine dispersed Ag2Al particles. The AlSi24Fe3 powder particles were sputtered by 5 nm layer of silver before sintering. The total amount of Ag in bulk sample was approximately 0.1 wt. %. The microstructure of Ag containing alloy was comparable to the basic one. The Ag nanoparticles were present on several particle boundaries. The influence of Ag presence on Vickers hardness of the material was not observed, as the values HV0.1 was 212. After a heat treatment (450 °C/ 1h), silver transformed to equilibrial Ag2Al phase, present in material in form of nanoparticles no more decorating strictly the particles boundaries.