The paper justifies the urgency and efficiency of obtaining bimetallic iron-based materials by two-step isothermal sintering to enable forming the structure of the product bases at the first stage and activating diffusion processes in the wear-resistant layer only at the second stage to eliminate any high-porosity areas and brittle inclusions at interlayer boundaries typical for powder materials doped with carbides, nitrides and borides. The analysis of equation solutions for diffusion in two-component heterogeneous powder systems made it possible to propose an option for determining the time and temperature of homogenizing sintering of bimetallic materials taking into account grain-size distribution of powders, concentration and partial diffusion coefficients of components, charge bulk density, initial and final porosity of the products. Experiments proved that bimetallic materials containing 15– 20 wt.% of chromium carbide, 20–25 wt.% of ferrochromium and iron as the rest component in the wear-resistant layer charge have the best combination of hardness, wear resistance and radial compression strength after sintering in a chamber furnace in protective medium at 1150–1180 °C with a holding time of 1,5–2,0 hours at the first stage, and in an induction furnace at 1350– 1370 °C for 25–35 s with a heating rate of 450–470 °C/s at the second stage. Structure formation peculiarities of the interlayer boundaries and wear-resistant layer during two-step sintering of all-pressed bimetallic materials are shown. It is found that for high-temperature sintering by high-frequency (8 or 16 kHz) heating at the second stage, the depth of chromium diffusion from the wear-resistant layer to the matrix is 120–130 μm, and Cr concentration in various points of interlayer and interparticle boundaries varies between 1 and 30 wt.% thus allowing formation of a transition layer with a structure consisting of a ferritic-austenitic matrix with martensitic colonies and dispersed particles of (Cr,Fe)23C6, (Cr,Fe)7C3 and (Cr,Fe)3C2 ferrochromium carbides uniformly distributed over the volume.

To predict structuring and to produce Fe-Cr-Ni-Graphite-based powdered alloys with tailor-made properties, the component diffusion coefficients have been determined that allow calculating sintering or homogenizing annealing parameters of heterogeneous charge products. It has been revealed that Fe, Cr and Ni heterodiffusion coefficients are influenced not only by their own concentration, but also by structuring kinetics and the number and distribution of the graphite in charge. The electron-probe test shows the distribution of the components in the in-terparticle contact zones. Using the Motano’s, the Lubov’s and the Maksimov’s methods, the values of mutual diffusion coefficients depending on the component concentration have been determined. Using Darken’s ratios and having experimentally determined the component interparticle zones and the displacement distance, the partial heterodiffusion coefficients have been calculated. The given paper proves that the powder-component grain-size distribution alloys should be selected on the basis of relative values of the heterodiffusion coefficients.

The influence of the method of melt spinning on the basis of the Fe-Nd-B system on the amorphous-crystal structure of ribbons and flakes is shown. It is established that the magnetic properties of magnetoplasts depend on the powders particle size, the parameters of mechanic activation during flake milling, the kinetics of formation and growth of Fe2Nd14B phase nuclei at all stages of their preparation and processing, etc. Isotropic and anisotropic magnetoplasts and sintered magnets with magnetic properties: Br = 0.5-1.25 T, HcB = 180-700 kA/m; (BH)max = 50-280 kJ/m3.