Simulation and Physical Experiment Study on Powder Metallurgy Preparation of Silicon Composite Powder

Abstract

Abstract The compaction and sintering processes of multi-component silicon powders, including single-action die compaction, uniaxial hot pressing and bidirectional hot compaction, were numerically performed by FEM (finite element method) modelling. The relationships of initial packing structure, compaction method, pressing pressure and sintering temperature between overall relative densities of multi-component silicon components were systematically discussed and studied. Meanwhile, various macro- and microscopic properties of silicon composite powders were carefully characterized, such as overall and local relative density, local stress distributions and void filling behaviour. The results show that fully compacted silicon composite targets with low internal stress can be obtained by using uniaxial hot pressing or bidirectional hot compaction method. And the physical experiments were carried out to verify the accuracy of the simulation results.