R&D Public - Property Data

Welcome to the Open page of the EPMA Property Data project.

In October 2000 EPMA Council decided that the competitiveness of ferrous Powder Metallurgy in higher duty applications was seriously hindered by a lack of good quality data on mechanical properties of sintered materials.

Accordingly a project was started May 2001, the first stage of which was a review of current data in cooperation with key interested parties internationally.The main rationale for this project is to improve the competitiveness of ferrous powder metallurgy in higher duty applications.

Competing processes such as casting forming and plastics currently offer end user designers computer based design tools. These interface well with CAD drawing packages and incorporate data on static and dynamic properties. Such packages enable designers to calculate stress levels in response to applied loads and thereby to optimise material choice and component geometry.
Although a considerable amount of powder metallurgy material data has been generated internationally, this is not currently in the form which can readily be incorporated into standard design tool computer packages of the form described above.The initial objective of this project is to review available data in cooperation with key interested parties internationally.

Depending upon the result of the desk review additional data may be generated. On completion of the review and generation of any "missing" data, it is planned to assemble good quality data into database form suitable for the main existing commercial design tools and advertise widely the availability of such data for advanced structural applications.

Sintered component manufacturers are expected to use compaction modelling software in conjunction with these tools.

For further information contact Peter Brewin at mailto:pb@epma.com

This project is only open to full and associate members of EPMA