Bi-Axially Textured Ni Tapes Fabricated by a Cold Rolling Process of Nickel Powder Compacts Scott Bartz 17 September 2007

Rolling: metal forming process (Compression)  Hot Rolling  Cold Rolling

Process: Ni and Ni-W powder compacts were cold rolled into tapes. Purpose: Discuss the effect of the processing variables on the texture development of the Ni and Ni-W tapes for YBCO coated conductors.

 When Ni ingots are formed by melting and casting, impurities can enter from the crucible and mold used.  Powder Metallurgy was used to help reduce impurities in the ingots.

 1) Powdered Ni is weighed and Packed (10 mm)  2) Compacted by cold iso-static pressing (8.3 mm)  3) Sintered for densification (7.2 mm)  4) Cold rolled (5% reduction) to final thickness (100 μm)  5)Texture annealed

“Bi-axially Textured Ni Tapes Fabricated by a Cold Rolling Process of Nickel Powder Compacts”, IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, Vol. 13, NO. 2, Jun 2003, pp

“Bi-axially Textured Ni Tapes Fabricated by a Cold Rolling Process of Nickel Powder Compacts”, IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, Vol. 13, NO. 2, Jun 2003, pp Tensile Test of sintered rods

(a)Many pores at the grain boundary. (b)No pores when annealed for 12 minutes. Microstructures of Ni tapes

 The higher the sintering temperature, the more ductile the Ni rods.  The surface roughness of the Ni and Ni alloy tapes were 3 nm  Important for those working with high temperature superconductors

 Lack of explanation in the concluding section  No tables used  More variables could have been incorporated into the experiment

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Please give me an “A”!!!