Peculiarities of the neck growth process during initial stage of spark-plasma, microwave and conventional sintering of WC spheres

• Main Authors: Demirskyi, Dmytro, Borodianska, Hanna, Agrawal, Dinesh, Ragulya, Andrey, Sakka, Yoshio, Vasylkiv, Oleg
• Other Authors: Temasek Laboratories
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/96832; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/11673
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This work involves an investigation of the neck growth kinetics of free-packed spherical shaped binderless tungsten carbide particles during microwave and spark-plasma sintering. The application of a classical sphere to sphere approach showed the possibility of identifying the main diffusion mechani...