Sintering of Advanced Materials (Woodhead Publishing Series in Metals and Surface Engineering) - Hardcover

Zhigang Zak Fang

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845695623 ISBN 13: 9781845695620

Publisher: Woodhead Publishing Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

Sintering is a method of manufacturing components from ceramic or metal powders by heating the material in a mould, below its melting point, until the powder particles adhere to each other. Many ceramic materials and specialist metal powder products for use in industries such as electronics, automotive and aerospace are manufactured using this method. Sintering of advanced materials examines topics such as thermodynamics of sintering, grain growth and microstructure development, atmosphere sintering, vacuum sintering, liquid phase sintering, microwave sintering, spark plasma sintering, sintering of refractory metals, sintering of cermets, sintering of injection molded powders including rapid prototyping, sintering of fine grained and nanosized powders.

Key Features: explores the thermodynamics of sintering including sinter bonding and densification; chapters review a variety of sintering methods including atmosphere, vacuum, liquid phase and microwave sintering; discusses sintering of a variety of materials featuring refractory metals, super hard materials and functionally graded materials.

Contents: Part 1 Fundamentals of sintering: Thermodynamics of sintering; Kinetics and mechanisms of densification; Path and kinetics of microstructural change in simple sintering; Computer modelling of sintering: theory and examples; Liquid phase sintering; Master sintering curve and its application in sintering of ceramics. Part 2 Advanced sintering processes: Atmospheric sintering; Vacuum sintering; Microwave sintering of ceramics, composites and metal powders; Fundamentals and applications of field/current assisted sintering; Photonic sintering an example: photonic curing of silver nanoparticles. Part 3 Sintering of advanced materials: Sintering of aluminium and its alloys; Sintering of titanium and its alloys; Sintering of refractory metals; Sintering of ultrahard materials; Constrained sintering of ceramics, films and coatings; Sintering of ultrafine and nanosized particles.

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About the Author

Dr Zhigang Zak Fang is a Professor in the Powder Metallurgy Research Laboratory of the Faculty of Metallurgical Engineering at the University of Utah, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845695623
• ISBN 13: 9781845695620
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 504
• Editor: Zhigang Zak Fang