ADVANCED TRENDS IN DESIGN OF LEAD-FREE ALTERNATIVE FOR TRADITIONAL FREE MACHINING BRASSES

摘要

Actual request for environmentally friendly materials in electric and electronic equipment has been released recently to some common metal materials with wide application in different areas, such as brasses, steels, etc. Therefore, some advanced trends are actual nowadays in the investigations of lead-free alternative for traditional free machining brasses and the review of current efforts in that field is presented in this paper.