Mechanical and Chemical Properties of intermetallic Ni3Al for Automotive Body

T., Joseph Sahaya Anand and Sivarao, Subramonian and K., Ganesh Kumar (2013) Mechanical and Chemical Properties of intermetallic Ni3Al for Automotive Body. Current Research in Malaysia (CREAM), 2 (2). pp. 61-72. ISSN 2231–8305

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Abstract

Ni3Al is an intermetallic compound which has unique property with temperature. Annealing is done at temperature 300, 500, and 700°C for 1 hour and analyzed with X-ray Diffraction (XRD) and Energy Dispersive X-ray (EDX) analysis for their crystallographic nature. EDX confirmed the composition of Ni3Al with exact stoichiometry, where as the XRD confirmed the crystallographic nature of the material. The mechanical properties by hardness results showed that Ni3Al have highest Vickers hardness value of 554 HV when it is non-heat treated. Its hardness drop as it had undergoes annealing process. Corrosion analysis by tafel test shows that its polarization resistance may increase up to 4145  cm2 when annealed at high temperature. These results show that Ni3Al is a promising material to be considered as an alternative automotive body.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Ni3Al; automotive body; X-ray Diffraction; tafel test.
Subjects:	T Technology > TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
Divisions:	Faculty of Manufacturing Engineering > Department of Engineering Materials
Depositing User:	Dr. T. Joseph Sahaya Anand
Date Deposited:	22 Jan 2014 03:45
Last Modified:	28 May 2015 04:12
URI:	http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/10701
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