Sintering: Fundamentals and Practice

Ceramics and Composites Processing Methods

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-42

  Bordia, Rajendra K ^a   Camacho Montes, Héctor ^b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b Institute for Engineering and Technology (UACJ)   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Densification, deformation in constrained sintering, viscoelastic analogy; LPS and densification enhancement, in sintering materials; Sintering, fundamentals and practice, and solid state sintering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886353959     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118176665.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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