Sintering and Densification (I)—Conventional Sintering Technologies

Ling Bing Kong*, Yizhong Huang, Wenxiu Que, Tianshu Zhang, Sean Li, Jian Zhang, Zhili Dong, Dingyuan Tang

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

It is well known that, to produce ceramics, green bodies must be sintered at a certain high temperature for a given time duration to develop required microstructure and thus desired properties. In particular, transparent ceramics must be fully dense to achieve maximum optical transmittance. Sintering process is governed by a number of parameters, which can be used to build up interrelationships among processing, microstructure, properties, and performance. Sintering behavior and microstructure development have been extensively studied. Qualitative understandings include driving forces of sintering, the mechanisms of densification, controlling factors, such as particle size of precursor powders, sintering temperature, time duration and applied pressure, electrical current, and so on. This chapter serves to cover the fundamental issues of the conventional sintering technologies.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTopics in Mining, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages291-394
Number of pages104
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameTopics in Mining, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering
ISSN (Print)2364-3293
ISSN (Electronic)2364-3307

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Springer International Publishing Switzerland.

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Materials Science (miscellaneous)
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
  • Metals and Alloys

Keywords

  • Driving Force
  • Grain Shape Accommodation
  • Liquid Phase Sintering
  • Matter Transport
  • Sintering Equation

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