Nickel Iron Alloy 46 Special Alloys For Electronic With Magnetic Shielding Capabilities

1 PRODUCT

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION (wt%):

Linear coefficient of thermal expansion

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES

Typical mechanical properties of Alloy 46 in annealed condition

WORKING INSTRUCTION

Alloys 46 can be hot or cold worked, machined and formed by processes similar to those used for austenitic stainless steels.

Heat treatment

Although the nickel-iron low expansion alloys are not hardenable, annealing and stress relief thermal treatments are at times necessary to promote structure uniformity and dimensional stability. The relief of stresses introduced by severe forming, bending, or machining, can be accomplished by annealing at temperatures of approximately 1400 to 1800°F (760 to 982°C) for a time sufficient, to thoroughly heat through the section. However, the nickel-irons will oxidize readily at these high temperatures. When annealing cannot be done in a non-oxidizing enviroment (vacuum, dry hydrogen, dissociated ammonia, etc.) sufficient material must be allowed on work pieces to clean-up by light grinding, pickling, etc., after annealing. Stress relief for sections having light finishing cuts or grinding performed after annealing is accomplished by heating to 600 to 800°F (316 to 427°C), for a time to uniformly heat through the work piece.

Forming

All of the nickel-iron controlled expansion alloys can be hot forged, upset, formed, etc., at temperatures between 1800 to 2100°F (982 to 1149°C). However, heating for hot working must be done uniformly at slow rates from relatively cold furnaces (black) to minimize the potential for cracking through large sections as a result of differential thermal expansion stresses. Large forgings should be annealed to promote uniformity after hot working.

Machining

The alloy should be machined in the annealed condition, using high speed steel or tungsten carbide tipped tools. Cutting compounds should be straight cutting oil E.P. medium duty, or soluble oil 20:1 dilution for turning, drilling and milling. Lower dilution ratios should be used for other machining methods.

The following feeds and speeds can be used as a general guide:

Nickel iron alloy 46 (UNS K94600, Glass seal 46, Pernifer 46) bar, tube, strip, foil, wire for hermetic and electronic tube.

Alloy 46 is available in following standard semi-finished forms:

Sheet & plate

Delivery condition: Hot or cold rolled, heat treated, descaled or pickled

Strip & foil

Delivery condition: Cold rolled, heat treated, pickled or bright annealed

Bar and rod

Delivery condition: Forged, rolled, drawn, heat treated, oxidized, descaled or pickled, turned, peeled, ground or polished

Wire (profile, round, flats, square)

Delivery condition: Drawn bright, ¼ hard to hard, bright annealed in rings, containers, on spools and headstocks

Wire rod

Delivery condition: hot rolled (dia.5.5mm to 40mm)

Others

Other shapes and dimensions such as discs, rings, seamless pipes and forgings can be requested.

2 EQUIVALENT DESIGNATION

UNS K94600, Glass seal 46, Nilo® alloy 46, Pernifer 46

3 OVERVIEW

Alloy 46 is a binary nickel-iron controlled expansion alloy containing 48% nickel, used in both for its controlled expansion characteristics as well as it’s magnetic shielding capabilities.

4 APPLICATION

Alloy 46 is mainly used for metal to glass and ceramic to glass sealing for hermetic and electronic tubes, jet aircraft compressor blades and rotor discs.

PHYSICAL PROPERTY

STANDARD SPECIFICATION

ASTM F-30 Sheet, strip, rod, bar, tubing and wire

MIL 1-23011 Class 4

AMS 1-23011 Class 4

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE:

(1) More than 50 years experience of research and develop in high temperature alloy, corrosion resistance alloy, precision alloy, refractory alloy, rare metal and precious metal material and products.
(2) 6 state key laboratories and calibration center.
(3) Patented technologies.

(4) Ultra-purity smelting process: VIM + IG-ESR + VAR

(5) Excellent high performance.

BUSINESS TERM

With background of more than 50 years of material R&D experience, CMMC is a high-tech enterprise specialized in production of high temperature alloys, corrosion resistant alloys, precision alloys, wear resistant alloys, refractory alloys and other special alloys.

With main smelting equipments by CONSARC, including vacuum induction melting furnace (VIM 3 metric tons x 1 set), inert gas protective electric slag remelting furnace (IG-ESR 5 metric tons x 1 set, 10 metric tons x 2 sets), vacuum arc remelting furnace (VAR 10 metric tons x 1 set), CMMC has an annual production capacity of 3000 metric tons.

Established in 2016, CMMC stll having an investing plan of more than 30 million U.S.Dollars in the coming 5 years. CMMC aspires to become an internationally renowned supplier and leading brand of key materials for core components of high-end equipments in the application fields of aerospace, clean energy, petroleum, chemical engineering, medical, marine engineering, food and automobile, etc.

Our main products include forgings, bars, rods, tubulars, plates, sheets, strips, wire rods, precision wires, etc.

From ultra-pure smelting,  hot and cold forming, heat treatment, mechanical processing to finish machining, CMMC provides the whole process of one-stop professional services.

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