Fabrication of Dense Composite Ceramics Utilizing Pulsed Electric Current and Pressure

Electric field in SPS: geometry and pulsed current effects

Electrical heating of the graphite die and punch assembly is a unique feature of the spark plasma sintering (SPS) process. The high currents needed to heat the die, despite its low resistance, can produce an electric field across the ceramic specimens that may be enough to induce field assisted sintering. Despite the large number of publications of SPS, the electric field intensity has not been...

investigation of gassing behavior, electric and dielectric properties of different insulating fluids.

ترانسفورماتورهای قدرت از اجزای اصلی شبکه تامین انرژی الکتریکی می باشند که عملکرد قابل اطمینان ترانسفورماتورها یکی از فاکتورهای مهم و تعیین کننده در تامین انرژی الکتریکی محسوب می شود. در نتیجه بررسی و مانیتور عملکرد ترانسفورماتورها در شبکه و همچنین عیب یابی این ترانسفورماتورها غیرقابل اجتناب و ضروری می باشد. به طور کلی عایق های مایع در صنعت فشار قوی کاربردهای متفاوتی دارند که مهمترین وظیفه آنها...

Fabrication and Investigation of Se-Ge Glass-Ceramics in the Presence of Ga and Sn Additives

The Chalcogenide glasses were fabricated by melting and quenching techniques in the Se-Ge system at the presence of 1mol% Ga and 3, 5, and 7mol% Sn. Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) analysis was conducted to extract the heat treatment of the samples. Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy analysis was also performed in a range of 2-16µm. The Glass samples were heat-treated at 450...

A Novel Approach to Develop Chalcogenide Glasses and Glass-Ceramics by Pulsed Current Electrical Sintering (PCES)

Ultra-fast and energy-efficient sintering of ceramics by electric current concentration

Electric current activated/assisted sintering (ECAS) techniques, such as electrical discharge sintering (EDS) or resistive sintering (RS), have been intensively investigated for longer than 50 years. In this work, a novel system including an electrically insulated graphite die for Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) is described, which allows the sintering of any refractory ceramic material in less th...