Microwave and conventional sintering of premixed and prealloyed tungsten heavy alloys

Materials Science and Technology Conference and Exhibition, MS and T'08

Volumn 4, Issue , 2008, Pages 2502-2515

  Mondal, A ^a   Upadhyaya, A ^a   Agrawal, D ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conventional Sintering; Microwave Sintering; Tungsten Heavy Alloys

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; CONVENTIONAL FURNACES; CONVENTIONAL SINTERING; DENSIFICATION PARAMETERS; EPMA ANALYSIS; EXTERNAL HEATING; MATRIX COMPOSITIONS; MATRIXES; MICROWAVE SINTERING; PREMIXED; RAPID-HEATING; SINTERED DENSITIES; SINTERING BEHAVIORS; SINTERING CYCLES; TUNGSTEN GRAINS; TUNGSTEN HEAVY ALLOYS;

ALLOYS; CERIUM ALLOYS; COPPER ALLOYS; HEATING; MICROWAVE HEATING; MICROWAVES; TUNGSTEN; TUNGSTEN ALLOYS;

SINTERING;

EID: 63749124620     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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