Spark Plasma Sintering: Current Status, New Developments and Challenges looks at the progress made in the field of SPS. It includes a review of the scientific mechanisms, materials synthesis and industry applications for this processing technique. Chapters are written by leading experts in the field, encompassing topics surrounding the densification mechanism and microstructure evolution, the classification of high-performance materials, a review of numerical simulation, discussions of new technology advances, such as HP-SPS, flash sintering and related challenges. This book will be useful for researchers, engineers and students within the materials science and engineering fields.
1. Cover image - p. iv 2. Title page - p. iv 3. Table of Contents - p. iv 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Contributors - p. ix 6. Preface - p. xiii 7. Chapter 1: Observations on the role of electric fields in the synthesis and processing of materials - p. xiii 8. Chapter 2: Ultra-high temperature ceramics by spark plasma sintering - p. 48 9. Chapter 3: How to overcome the main challenges of SPS technology: Reproducibility, multi-samples and elaboration of complex shapes - p. 76 10. Chapter 4: Nanoscale mixing of dissimilar phases in bulk materials by current activated pressure assisted densification (CAPAD) of core-shell powders - p. 108 11. Chapter 5: Simultaneous transformation and consolidation of stacking-sequence disordered SiC without sintering additives - p. 126 12. Chapter 6: Enhanced mechanical properties of pure titanium based on solid-state reactions during a combination of mechanical milling and spark plasma sintering process - p. 152 13. Chapter 7: Refined SPS modeling based on calibrated current and voltage measurements - p. 162 14. Chapter 8: Superconducting cryo-magnets processed by spark plasma sintering and texturing - p. 184 15. Chapter 9: Ultrahigh pressure SPS (HP-SPS) as new syntheses and exploration tool in materials science - p. 199 16. Chapter 10: One step densification of printed multilayers by SPS: Towards new piezoelectric energy harvester MEMS - p. 218 17. Chapter 11: Asymmetrical microstructures and compositions, new phases, and improved metal-ceramic bonding by DC electric fields: A review with new insights from CeO2 - p. 255 18. Chapter 12: Spark plasma sintering of near net shape titanium aluminide: A review - p. 279 19. Chapter 13: The hybrid-SPS, an effective tool to produce large-sized parts - p. 299 20. Index - p. 313
Spark Plasma Sintering: Current Status, New Developments and Challenges looks at the progress made in the field of SPS. It includes a review of the scientific mechanisms, materials synthesis and industry applications for this processing technique. Chapters are written by leading experts in the field, encompassing topics surrounding the densification mechanism and microstructure evolution, the classification of high-performance materials, a review of numerical simulation, discussions of new technology advances, such as HP-SPS, flash sintering and related challenges. This book will be useful for researchers, engineers and students within the materials science and engineering fields.
1. Cover image - p. iv 2. Title page - p. iv 3. Table of Contents - p. iv 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Contributors - p. ix 6. Preface - p. xiii 7. Chapter 1: Observations on the role of electric fields in the synthesis and processing of materials - p. xiii 8. Chapter 2: Ultra-high temperature ceramics by spark plasma sintering - p. 48 9. Chapter 3: How to overcome the main challenges of SPS technology: Reproducibility, multi-samples and elaboration of complex shapes - p. 76 10. Chapter 4: Nanoscale mixing of dissimilar phases in bulk materials by current activated pressure assisted densification (CAPAD) of core-shell powders - p. 108 11. Chapter 5: Simultaneous transformation and consolidation of stacking-sequence disordered SiC without sintering additives - p. 126 12. Chapter 6: Enhanced mechanical properties of pure titanium based on solid-state reactions during a combination of mechanical milling and spark plasma sintering process - p. 152 13. Chapter 7: Refined SPS modeling based on calibrated current and voltage measurements - p. 162 14. Chapter 8: Superconducting cryo-magnets processed by spark plasma sintering and texturing - p. 184 15. Chapter 9: Ultrahigh pressure SPS (HP-SPS) as new syntheses and exploration tool in materials science - p. 199 16. Chapter 10: One step densification of printed multilayers by SPS: Towards new piezoelectric energy harvester MEMS - p. 218 17. Chapter 11: Asymmetrical microstructures and compositions, new phases, and improved metal-ceramic bonding by DC electric fields: A review with new insights from CeO2 - p. 255 18. Chapter 12: Spark plasma sintering of near net shape titanium aluminide: A review - p. 279 19. Chapter 13: The hybrid-SPS, an effective tool to produce large-sized parts - p. 299 20. Index - p. 313
