Nanocrystalline WC–Co materials have been the subject of interests and focus of research
programs around the world for the past two decades owing to the expectations that the …

The electric current activated/assisted sintering (ECAS) is an ever growing class of versatile
techniques for sintering particulate materials. Despite the tremendous advances over the …

Throughout human history, any society's capacity to fabricate and refine new materials to
satisfy its demands has resulted in advances to its performance and worldwide standing …

A comprehensive three‐dimensional fully coupled thermo‐electro‐mechanical finite element
framework is developed for modeling spark plasma sintering (SPS). The finite element …

A novel processing methodology that allows combined preheating and Flash‐SPS (FSPS) of
silicon carbide‐based materials has been developed. Beta‐SiC (+ 10 wt% B4C) powders …

High purity W and W–0.9 La2O3 (wt.%) nanopowders were produced by a wet chemical
route. The precursor was prepared by the reaction of ammonium paratungstate (APT) with …

For the production of hard, high temperature and abrasion resistant parts, like water-jet
nozzles or pressing tools for forming glass lenses, binderless cemented carbide is used. In …

This work presents fabrication and characterization of Al–SiC–TiC composite materials
containing 15 wt% SiC and 5 wt% TiC as reinforcing phases. The spark plasma and …

Spark plasma sintering (SPS) is an extremely fast solidification technique for compounds
that are difficult to sinter within the material group's metals, ceramics, or composites thereof …

Cemented carbides, owing to their excellent mechanical properties, have been of immense
interest in the field of hard materials for the past few decades. Although a number of …