Spark Plasma Sintering: Current Status, New Developments and Challenges

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.

Provides significant information on the most relevant research topics currently being addressed by the SPS community Highlights the application of SPS techniquesReviews critical issues that still need to be overcome when utilizing SPS technology

1. Observations on the Role of Electric Fields in the Synthesis and Processing of Materials 2. Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics by Spark Plasma Sintering 3. How to overcome the main challenges of SPS technology: reproducibility and elaboration complex shapes 4. Nanoscale mixing of dissimilar phases in bulk materials by current activated pressure assisted densification (CAPAD) of core-shell powders 5. Simultaneous transformation of stacking-sequence disordered SiC and consolidation without sintering additives 6. Enhanced mechanical properties of light alloys based on solid-state reactions during a combination of mechanical milling and spark plasma sintering process 7. Refined SPS modelling based on calibrated current and voltages measurements 8. Spark Plasma Sintering of Metal Powders 9. Superconducting cryo-magnets processed by Spark Plasma Sintering and Texturing 10. Ultra High Pressure SPS (HP-SPS) as new syntheses and exploration tool in Materials Science 11. One step densification of printed multilayer by SPS: towards new piezoelectric energy harvester MEMS 12. Microstructure and chemical effects induced by electric field assisted sintering 13. Spark Plasma Sintering of Near-Net Shape Titanium Aluminide: A Review 14. The hybrid-SPS, an effective tool to produce large-sized parts