Available online at www.sciencedirect.com ScienceDirect Materials Today: Proceedings 5 (2018) 16073–16079 www.materialstoday.com/proceedings 2214-7853© 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Selection and/or Peer-review under responsibility of International Conference on Advanced Materials(SCICON ‘16). SCICON 2016 Experimental investigations on Deformation, Densification and Mechanical properties of sintered Fe-C-Mn low alloy P/M steels under hot upsetting G. Akash a *,T. K. Kandavel b , I. Sai Kishan a , J.T.Vishnuraj a a M.Tech (Integ.) students , School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy (SASTRA University), Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu 613 401, India b Senior Assistant Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy (SASTRA University), Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu 613 401, India Abstract The present research work pertains to the study of deformation and densification characteristics and mechanical properties of Mn added low alloy steels. The sintered and hot upset powder metallurgy (P/M) low alloy steels such as Fe-0.2%C, Fe-0.2%C- 0.5%Mn and Fe-0.2%C-2.0%Mn were used for the plastic deformation, densification and mechanical properties of the alloy steels. The surface morphology of the specimens was correlated to the deformation, densification and mechanical properties of the low alloy steels. It is observed that addition of Mn affects the plastic deformation property of the material and enhances the mechanical strength of the P/M alloy steel. © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Selection and/or Peer-review under responsibility of International Conference on Advanced Materials(SCICON ‘16). Keywords:Powder metallurgy; Sintering; Deformation; Densification; Hot upsetting; Preforms. 1. Introduction In recent years the P/M technique has acquired very important place in the industry and is accepted as one of the advanced manufacturing methods. It is being widely used for producing precision components for critical * Corresponding author. Tel.: +91-944 564 3341; fax: +95 04362 264120. E-mail address: akashgopalan1995@gmail.com