TY - JOUR N2 - Microwave sintering process was employed to agglomerate ferromanganese alloy powders. The effects of sintering temperature, holding time and particle size composition on the properties and microstructure of sintering products were investigated. The results was shown that increasing sintering temperature or holding time appropriately is beneficial to increase the compressive strength and volume density. SEM and EDAX analysis shows that the liquid phase formed below the melting point in the sintering process, which leads to densification. XRD patterns indicate that the main reaction during microwave sintering is the decarbonization and carburization of iron carbide phase. The experiment demonstrate that the optimum microwave sintering process condition is 1150°C, 10 min and 50% content of the powders with the size of –75 μm L1 - http://czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/103523/PDF/AMM-2018-2-03-Dai.pdf L2 - http://czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/103523 PY - 2018 IS - No 2 DO - 10.24425/118973 KW - Microwave sintering KW - Ferromanganese powder KW - densification KW - Liquid phase KW - Process conditions A1 - Lei Li A1 - Libo Zhang A1 - Linqing Dai A1 - Hongbo Zhu A1 - Guo Chen A1 - Jinhui Peng A1 - Qin Guo PB - Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science of Polish Academy of Sciences PB - Committee of Materials Engineering and Metallurgy of Polish Academy of Sciences VL - vol. 63 DA - 2018.06.30 T1 - Effects of Microwave Sintering on Properties and Microstructure of Ferromanganese Alloy Powders UR - http://czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/103523 T2 - Archives of Metallurgy and Materials ER -