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...carbon mild steel (<0.2 wt% C) which is used to produce a wide range of components, mainly in the automotive and bicycle component industries. Mild steel has to be annealed before cold forging and at interstage processes. Cold forging causes strain hardening in the materials, resulting in increases of 30–120% in tensile strength and 100–300% in yield strength values....

...carbon), 0.3–1.0 wt%; copper (infiltration), 1.5–11.0 wt%; nickel, 1.0–8.0 wt% Typical sintered properties of steels are as follows: Tensile strength (MPa) Yield strength (MPa) Elongation (%) Fe-0.5C (density 6.8 g cm-3) 296 193 3.5 Fe-2.7Cu-0.15C (density 6.8 g cm-3) 255 159 7.0 Fe-2.7Cu-0.45C (density 6.8 g cm-3) 427 310 3.0 The main additions to aluminium alloys...

...carbon steel, which can be hardened and tempered to give mechanical properties as good as, or better than, wrought alloy. Other steel compositions include steels suitable for carburising or through-hardening applications, e.g. Fe-1.8Ni-0.45Mo-0.2Mn-0.35C with a tensile strength of 930 MPa and elongation of 13%. Pre-alloyed aluminium alloy powders include the following...

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