抄録
This is a fundamental approach to the quantitative characterization of powder/short fiber mixtures. Attention has been paid to the packing structures of powder/short fiber mixtures because of a main factor in successive consolidation processes and products. Numerous types of metallic powders and short fibers in commercial market are used for this study. Packing densities are measured at various blending ratios for ten combination sets of the powders and the fibers. The powders have been characterized with a dispersion diagram of particle sizes and shapes which had been reported in the previous work. The short fibers can be also morphologically characterized in a similar way. The measured packing densities can be related to the blending ratio and the morphologically characterized quantities of the powders and the short fibers.
