Fundamental aspects of spark plasma sintering: I. Experimental analysis of scalability

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 95, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2406-2413

  Olevsky, Eugene A ^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

DIFFERENT SCALE; DIFFERENT SIZES; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL METHODOLOGY; FINAL DENSITY; GRAIN SIZE; HIGH HEATING RATES; INDUSTRIAL IMPLEMENTATION; MODELING APPROACH; PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES; RELATIVE DENSITY; STRUCTURE CHANGE; TEMPERATURE REGIMES;

ALUMINA; GRAIN GROWTH; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; SPARK PLASMA SINTERING;

SCALABILITY;

EID: 84864722263     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: 15512916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2012.05203.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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