Microwave sintering of tungsten based alloys

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Tungsten, Refractory and Hardmaterials

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3122-3133

  Mondal, Avijit ^a   Agrawal, Dinesh ^b   Upadhyaya, Anish ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Density; Liquid phase sintering; Microstructure; Microwaves

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL SINTERING; FINE MICROSTRUCTURE; METALLIC MATERIAL; MICROWAVE ENERGIES; MICROWAVE SINTERING; PROCESSING CYCLES; PRODUCT PERFORMANCE; RAPID-HEATING;

CERIUM ALLOYS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); HARDNESS; LIQUID PHASE SINTERING; MICROSTRUCTURE; MICROWAVE HEATING; MICROWAVES; REFRACTORY MATERIALS; SINTERING;

TUNGSTEN;

EID: 84863645170     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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