sintering
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24 sectionsContents
- General sintering
- Ceramic sintering
- Sintering of metallic powders
- Advantages
- Plastics sintering
- Liquid phase sintering
- Electric current assisted sintering
- Spark plasma sintering
- Electro sinter forging
- Pressureless sintering
- Microwave sintering
- Densification, vitrification and grain growth
- Sintering mechanisms
- Grain growth
- Grain boundary energy/tension
- Mechanical equilibrium
- Reducing grain growth
- Solute ions
- Fine second phase particles
- Sintering of catalysts
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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Sintering or frittage is the process of compacting and forming a solid mass of material by pressure or heat without melting it to the point of liquefaction. Sintering happens as part of a manufacturing process used with metals, ceramics, plastics, and other materials. The atoms/molecules in the sintered material diffuse across the boundaries of the particles, fusing the particles together and creating a solid piece.