Abstract. It was prepared that Cu 20 Fe 80 alloys using the mechanical alloying and cold pressing and the microwave sintering. The microstructure and the phase composition of Cu 20 Fe 80 alloy were analyzed by SEM and XRD, respectively. The density and hardness of the alloys were measured. The effect of La 2 O 3 on microstructure and properties of Cu 20 Fe 80 alloy was investigated during the microwave sintering. The results have shown that the powder milling structure of Cu 20 Fe 80 alloy is a flake layer which is refined and the mechanical alloying enhanced with increasing La 2 O 3 content; The microstructure of the Cu 20 Fe 80 alloy powder blank cold pressed is lamellar which gradually become dense, the density increases and the formability is improved with the increase of La 2 O 3 content; The microstructure of the Cu 20 Fe 80 alloys sintering was lamellar that the voids and the density and the hardness change with the increase of La 2 O 3 content and the best La 2 O 3 content was 0.2%.
IntroductionIron -Copper -based powder metallurgy bearing material, which can save non-ferrous metals and reduce the cost of raw materials [1][2][3]. But the traditional bearing mixed iron copper powder, the compressive strength, hardness is based on copper based materials on the increased slightly, poor corrosion resistance, and will inevitably generate and microstructure segregation caused by inhomogeneity of hard phase and the performance of the resulting running noise increases and shorten the service life of the bearing, the in the large-scale automation production process, is not conducive to ensure the consistency and stability of the product performance [4][5][6][7] . In this paper, La 2 O 3 was added in the preparation of Cu-Fe alloy, and the effect of La 2 O 3 on the microstructure and properties of Cu-Fe alloy during mechanical alloying and cold pressing microwave sintering was studied.