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Rusnaldy, PhD
Powder Metallurgy
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Powder Metallurgy:
Porous Metals
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• Promotes solid-state
bonding by diffusion.
• Diffusion is time-
temperature sensitive.
Needs sufficient time
•Promotes vapour-phase
transport
•Because material
heated very close to MP,
metal atoms will be
released in the vapour
phase from the particles
•Vapour phase
resolidifies at the
interface
Sintering Time and Temperature for Metals
Figure 17.22 (a) Design features for use with unsupported flanges. (b) Design features for use
with grooves.
Manufacturing, Source:
Engineering & Courtesy of Metal Powder Industries Federation.
Technology, Fifth Edition, by
Serope Kalpakjian and Steven
R. Schmid.
ISBN 0-13-148965-8. © 2006