A method for hardening from liquid state is developed and used to design and create a commercial prototype facility for supercooling melts of Fe – Nd – B alloys to produce rapidly hardened flakes. Optimum modes for hardening of alloy Fe – 28.5% Nd – 1.4% B – 1% Zr in this facility are developed and rapidly hardened flakes with high magnetic properties are obtained. The phase composition and the structure of the alloy are studied.
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Translated from Metallovedenie i Termicheskaya Obrabotka Metallov, No. 2, pp. 30 – 34, February, 2013.
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Konev, N.N., Belov, A.V. Use of free-falling stream of melt for making nanocrystalline magnetically hard Fe – Nd – B materials. Met Sci Heat Treat 55, 87–91 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11041-013-9585-9
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