Porous Ti3SiC2 was fabricated with high purity, 99.4 vol %, through reactive sintering of titanium hydride (TiH2), silicon (Si) and graphite (C) elemental powders. The reaction procedures and the pore structure evolution during the sintering process were systematically studied by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscope (SEM). Our results show that the formation of Ti3SiC2 from ...

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...

The proper ratio decision of sintering burden is a significant section for both of decreasing sintering costs and increasing quality of iron. At present most company in China take the Fixed-ratio method and linear programming (LP) model to calculate the proper ratio for sintering. The former is the performance appraisal method for production cost management of iron. The latter is to use maths m...

When traditional sintering techniques are used it is difficult to obtain dense materials with nanometric or submicrometric grain sizes. Microwave sintering was proposed as an alternative technique to overcome the problems of conventional fast heating. However, various problems usually occur when ceramics are sintered by direct microwave heating [1]. Hybrid heating techniques, which combine dire...

In this study, a combustion synthesized AlN powder was sintered using microwave as heating source. The microwave was 2.45 GHz and the sintering process was carried out in a single-mode cavity. The sintering temperature was between 1800°C and 2000°C with a power ranging from 400 to 700W. The as-synthesized AlN was ground to under 2μm and yttria was used as sintering aid. The effects of the amoun...

Sintering of metal powders is a well-established industrial process for specific applications, which allow a cheap series production of metal parts even with complex shape. The residual porosity, always present in sintered power compacts, limits their mechanical strength. On the other hand, for several products such porosity is needed. Products of that kind are for example: metal filters showin...

In this work, a new way to fabricate nanoporous TiO2 photoanode by flash light is demonstrated. TiO2 nanoparticles are sintered on FTO glass by flash light irradiation at room temperature in ambient condition, which is dramatically simple, ultrahigh speed and one-shot large area fabrication process compared to a conventional high temperature (120 °C) thermal sintering process. The effect of the...

Nanopowders of Al2O3, TiO2 and MgO were fabricated by high energy ball milling. The simutaneous synthesis and sintering of nanostuctured MgAl2O4-Mg3Al4Ti3O25 composite was investigated by the pulsed current activated sintering process. The advantage of this process is that it allows very quick densification to near theoretical density and inhibition of grain growth. A highly dense nanostructure...