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Optimizing the Heat Treatment of Rare Earth-Transition Metal Sintered Magnets

Journal Materials Science Forum (Volumes 660 - 661)
Volume Advanced Powder Technology VII
Edited by Lucio Salgado and Francisco Ambrozio Filho
Pages 290-295
DOI 10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.660-661.290
Citation Marcos Flávio de Campos et al., 2010, Materials Science Forum, 660-661, 290
Online since October, 2010
Authors Marcos Flávio de Campos, José Adilson de Castro
Keywords Coercivity, Diffusion, Heat Treatment, Magnet
Abstract

Rare earth transition metals magnets, as for example SmCo5, NdFeB and Sm(CoCuFeZr)z magnets are, very often, submitted to a post-sintering heat treatment where the coercivity increases. In many cases, a slow cooling between the sintering and the annealing temperatures is applied. To optimize the time and cooling rate of heat treatment, it was developed a model using the finite volume method. This model takes into account the diffusivities of the different atom species and also the boundaries of phase diagrams.

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