Fundamental aspects of spark plasma sintering: II. Finite element analysis of scalability

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 95, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2414-2422

  Olevsky, Eugene A ^a   Garcia Cardona, Cristina ^a   Bradbury, William L ^a   Haines, Christopher D ^b   Martin, Darold G ^b   Kapoor, Deepak ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b US Army ARDEC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSIFICATION BEHAVIOR; FINITE ELEMENT; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; FULLY-COUPLED; HEATING PATTERN; HIGH HEATING RATES; INDUSTRIAL IMPLEMENTATION; MATERIAL STRUCTURE; MODELING APPROACH; PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES; QUALITATIVE PREDICTIONS; TEMPERATURE REGIMES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRAIN GROWTH; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; SPARK PLASMA SINTERING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84864683370     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: 15512916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2012.05096.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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