As the electro-deposited zone by the electrophoretic method on the surface of the steel plate has the weak combining power and easily come off, it needs to be compacted and sintered in order to obtain compact Aluminium-zone which is combined firmly with the steel plate.
The compacted zone made using of flaky powder and atomized powder was compacted by the press machine under the room temperature, and sintered in the vacuum (10
-2mmHg).
The electrolytic test, the x-ray diffraction and the metalloscopic observation were done for the purpose of examining the states of combination between the deposited zone and the steel plate.
Furthermore, in order to know how the structure hanges when it is heated for long hours in the atmosphere at the temperatures below the melting point of aluminium, after being heated for 5 hours at the temperatures of 500°C and 640°C, the metalloscope and the x-ray diffraction adapted to examine its structure.
The result:
1) In the case of flaky powder, the conditions of compacting and sintering were fit when the compacting pressure was 3.5ton/cm
2 and the sintering time 60-90 minutes.
2) The deposited zone having been sintered for 60 minutes at the temperature of 600°C became clear what seemed to be the alloy zone by the electro-test, it could not be, however, determined to be the alloy-zone by the x-ray diffraction.
3) As for the deposited zone which had been sintered for 10 minutes at the temperature of 750°C, the compact alloy-zone was not observed in this case.
4) When the deposit was diffused by heating for 5hours at the temperatures of 500°C and 640°C after being sintered, in the former case the alloy-zone could not be observed clearly, in the latter case, however, the alloy-zone could be seen.
5) When it was kept for 5 hours at the temperature of 640°C after being sintered the deposit for 90 minutes in the temperature of 600°C, and then made alloy-zone was η-phase (Fe
2Al
5) from the result of x-ray diffraction, and same time leaving aluminium and iron oxides (FeO, Fe
2O
3 and Fe
3O
4) existi n the alloy-zone. Otherwise, in the case of aluminized steel most of the alloy-zone was θ-phase (FeAl
3) and a little α
3-phase (FeAl) also was recognized, however, leaving aluminium and iron oxides did not exist.
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