Because magnets fabricated using Nd-Fe-B exhibit excellent magnetic properties, this novel material is used in various high-tech industries. However, because of the brittleness and low formability of Nd-Fe-B magnets, the design freedom of shapes for improving the performance is limited based on conventional tooling and postprocessing. Laserpowder bed fusion (L-PBF), the most famous additive manufacturing (AM) technique, has recently emerged as a novel process for producing geometrically complex shapes of Nd-Fe-B parts owing to its high precision and good spatial resolution. However, because of the repeated thermal shock applied to the materials during L-PBF, it is difficult to fabricate a dense Nd-Fe-B magnet. In this study, a high-density (>96%) Nd-Fe-B magnet is successfully fabricated by minimizing the thermal residual stress caused by substrate heating during L-PBF.

In this research, the magnetic abrasive finishing process using (Nd-Fe-B) permanent magnet was applied to confirm the performance and to find the optimum conditions. The STS304 bar was used as the specimen in this experiment. In order to confirm the performance of magnetic abrasive finishing process, the surface roughness (Ra) and diameter reduction were measured when the specimens were processed under the conditions of rotational speeds, frequencies, and magnetic pole shapes. The rotational speeds were varied at 8000rpm, 15000rpm, 20000rpm, and 25000rpm. And the frequencies were changed to 0Hz, 4Hz and 10Hz. Also the shapes of the magnetic pole were changed to flat edge, sharp edge and round edge. It can be concluded that the surface roughness (Ra) and diameter reduction were found to be the best at 25000rpm, 4Hz, flat edge.

Neodymium-iron-boron (Nd-Fe-B) sintered magnets have excellent magnetic properties such as the remanence, coercive force, and the maximum energy product compared to other hard magnetic materials. The coercive force of Nd-Fe-B sintered magnets is improved by the addition of heavy rare earth elements such as dysprosium and terbium instead of neodymium. Then, the magnetocrystalline anisotropy of Nd-Fe-B sintered magnets increases. However, additional elements have increased the production cost of Nd-Fe-B sintered magnets. Hence, a study on the control of the microstructure of Nd-Fe-B magnets is being conducted. As the coercive force of magnets improves, the grain size of the Nd2Fe14B grain is close to 300 nm because they are nucleation-type magnets. In this study, fine particles of Nd-Fe-B are prepared with various grinding energies in the pulverization process used for preparing sintered magnets, and the microstructure and magnetic properties of the magnets are investigated.

In order to improve the remanence of (Nd, Dy)-Fe-B sintered magnets, we investigated the influence of compaction conditions such as packing density, applied field and green density on the magnetic properties. While the remanence decreased with increasing the packing density and green density, it increased with the increase of the applied field. In addition, XRD analysis revealed that the remanence was enhanced as the degree of powder alignment was improved. The green density was more influential on the remanence than the packing density and applied field.

본 연구는 R-B & HDDR process를 적용해서 Nd-Fe-B계 회토류 이방성 본드자석의 제조를 위한 기초 데이터를 확보할 목적으로. 환원확산법을 사용해서 Nd-Fe-B계 자석합금분말을 제조하는 데 필요한 금속 Ca에 의한 Nd2O3의 환원반응과 Fe-B합금분말중에서의 Nd확산반응을 조사하였다. 그 결과 Nd2O3의 환원시 필요한 최적의 Ca첨가량은 1000˚C에서 1h동안 R-D 반응후 Nd 및 B원소의 수율관계로부터 이론당량의 1.3배정도가 적량인 것으로 나타났다. 또한 Fe-B합금분말중에 Nd의 확산과 관련된 XRD의 분석결과에 따라 완전한 균질화를 위해서는 1100˚C에서 45min정도의 R-D반응이 필요하였으며, R-D반응에 대한 Nd의 수율도 그 조건에서 최대로 얻어졌다. 그리고 수세후의 최종 분말시료중에 잔류하는 Ca 및 O2량을 ICP발광분석 및 산소분석기에 의해 분석한 결과, 각각의 함유량은 0.17 및 0.42wt%정도가 검출되었다