Effects of pressure application method on transparency of spark plasma sintered alumina

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1405-1409

  Grasso, Salvatore ^a,b   Hu, Chunfeng ^b   Maizza, Giovanni ^c   Kim, Byung Nam ^b   Sakka, Yoshio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA POWDER; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; HIGH HEATING RATES; PRESSURE APPLICATIONS; SAMPLE HOMOGENEITY; SPARK PLASMA;

ELECTRIC SPARKS; HEATING; HEATING RATE; MICROSTRUCTURE; SPARK PLASMA SINTERING; TRANSPARENCY;

SINTERED ALUMINA;

EID: 79955495382     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: 15512916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2010.04274.x     Document Type: Article

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