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Cemented carbides today find a wide range of applications and are tailor-made according to their tasks. Carbide can only be produced by powder metallurgy. The mechanical properties are determined by the composition and granularity of the carbide material, metal binder and any additives. In addition to hardness testing, density testing, structural analysis and porosity tests, non-destructive measurements of magnetization and coercive force are routinely used for quality control according to DIN-ISO 3326. These magnetic properties provide information on the structure, composition and contamination in the sintered state. Although the evaluation draws on a great deal of experience, the measurement results in binary or ternary systems with complex manufacturing processes are often not clearly interpretable.

This project aims to make the magnetic characterization of cemented carbides and their conclusions on structural and mechanical properties more accurate. In addition to traditional measurements of M(H)-hysteresis, modern methods such as First-Order-Reversal-Curve (FORC) analysis and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for FORC diagrams will be added, which will make the interpretation more quantitative and clearer.

Today's magnetometers allow FORC measurements to be done within a reasonable time frame of a few minutes. These provide additional information about phase formation and impurities in the powder and sintered state. Despite vast experience, FORC diagrams are not easy to interpret. A so far unused approach should help. We want to interpret the FORC diagrams using Artificial Intelligence. After a learning phase, we expect quantitative statements on structure, composition, phase formation and contamination, as well as on mechanical properties such as hardness, tensile strength, etc. The above improvements are supported by (micro)magnetic simulations. On the one hand, these can calculate FORC diagrams of model systems and make them available to the deep-learning algorithm (or similar: Random Forest for example), and on the other hand, experimental data (M(H) and FORC) can be physically interpreted.

KI-Carbid

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Duration 01/04/2020 - 31/03/2023
Funding FFG
Program
Department

Department for Integrated Sensor Systems

Center for Micro and Nano Sensors

Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems) Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hubert Brückl
Project members

Team

Publications

Breth, L.; Fischbacher, J.; Kovacs, A.; Özelt, H.; Schrefl, T.; Brückl, H.; Czettl, C.; Kührer, S.; Pachlhofer, J., Schwarz, M. (2023). FORC diagram features of Co particles due to reversal by domain nucleation. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 571 (2023) 170567 Available online 24 February 2023 0304-8853/© 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Vol. 571: 1-6

Lectures

Interpretation ambiguity in FORC diagrams

Joint European Magnetism Symposia Conference JEMS 2022, 28/07/2022

FORC diagrams of hcp-Co particle ensembles from micromagnetic simulations

IEEE Advances in Magnetism (AIM) 2020+2021, 15/06/2021

FORC investigations of large-scale nano-ellipses arrays

AIM 2021, 15/06/2021

Using a Random Forest Regressor to predict First Order Reversal Curves of hcp-Co particle ensembles

Intermag 2021, 26/04/2021

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