Initial stage sintering of binderless tungsten carbide powder under microwave radiation

Ceramics International

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 505-512

  Demirskyi, Dmytro ^a,b   Ragulya, Andrey ^b   Agrawal, Dinesh ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FRANTSEVICH INSTITUTE FOR PROBLEMS OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

A. Sintering; Ceramics; Microwave heating; Neck growth kinetics; Tungsten carbide

Indexed keywords

A. SINTERING; C-SYSTEMS; CERAMICS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; DIFFUSION MECHANISMS; DIFFUSION PROCESS; INITIAL STAGES; LIQUID PHASE; MICROWAVE RADIATIONS; MICROWAVE SINTERING; NECK GROWTH; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; TUNGSTEN CARBIDE PARTICLES;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CERAMIC MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; GROWTH KINETICS; HEATING; MICROWAVE HEATING; MICROWAVES; SPHERES; TUNGSTEN; TUNGSTEN CARBIDE;

SINTERING;

EID: 78650188753     PISSN: 02728842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2010.09.036     Document Type: Article

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