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Effects of Residual Carbon on Microstructure and Surface Roughness of PIM 316L Stainless Steel

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Powder injection molding (PIM) offers an attractive method for producing smart and intricate shapes components. PIM process is cost effective and equally applicable for metals and ceramics. Debinding process is the most critical step among all PIM steps and any residual during debinding can change the composition of sintered product resulting change in final properties. In this research work, the injection molded samples were thermally debound and sintered in various atmospheres. The results showed that the sintered samples with improper thermal debinding resulted the carbide formation at the surface and across the grain boundaries that caused to increase the roughness value.

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The authors acknowledge the “Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, AMREC SIRIM Kulim Kedah”, and UKM-ICONIC-2013-003 and UKM-DIP-2012-29” for providing technical and financial support.

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  1. Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

    Muhammad Rafi Raza, Norhamidi Muhamad, Abu Bakar Sulong & Majid Niaz Akhtar

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Tronoh, Perak, Malaysia

    Faiz Ahmad, Ali S. Muhsan & Muhammad Aslam

  3. Advanced Materials Research Centre (AMREC) SIRIM, Kulim, Kedah, Malaysia

    M. A. Omar

  4. Department of Physics, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore, Pakistan

    Majid Niaz Akhtar

  5. Department of Chemical Engineering, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore, Pakistan

    Muhammad Shahid Nazir

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Raza, M.R. et al. (2015). Effects of Residual Carbon on Microstructure and Surface Roughness of PIM 316L Stainless Steel. In: Hassan, R., Yusoff, M., Alisibramulisi, A., Mohd Amin, N., Ismail, Z. (eds) InCIEC 2014. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-290-6_81

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