Sintering, cold pressing

Miscellaneous Processes. Metal strip for cladding can be produced by cold pressing metal powder into alow density green strip, foUowed by sintering to compact the powder. AHoy powders can be made into strip, along with specialized strip with one powder bonded to a different powder on the opposite side. 

Cold-isostatic-pressing foUowed by vacuum sintering or HIP is also used to manufacture smaller intricate shapes. In this instance beryUium powder is loaded into shaped mbber bags and pressed isostaticaUy in a pressure chamber up to 410 MPa (60,000 psi). After the pressing operation the mbber bag is stripped from the part which is then vacuum sintered to about 99% of theoretical density at about 1200°C. If full theoretical density is required, the sintered part may be simply given a HIP cycle because there is no open porosity after vacuum sintering. In a similar manner, conventional axial cold-pressing... 

To produce wear-resistant or hardened surfaces, thin layers of borides can be prepared on metal surfaces by reaction and diffusion (see Metal SURFACE treatments). Boride powders can be formed iato monolithic shapes by cold pressing and sintering, or by hot pressiag. 

LiTaO,-0.5SrTiO3 5 x 10-4 0.33 Cold-pressed samples, sintering [48]... 

Stable, conductive electrodes would also be a problem. Preliminary experiments, were carried out in a cell, using simulated flue gas nearly identical to that shown in Fig. 24. In these tests, the membranes were hot-pressed from mixed powders of electrolyte (ternary eutectic of [Na, Li, K]2 S04) with LiA102 as matrix. The electrodes were constructed of cold-pressed Li20-9Cr203, partially sintered to give a highly-porous gas-diffusion structure. The tests were encouraging up to 50% of the S02 was removed from the simulated flue gas with the application of current. Simultaneously, a stream of concentrated S03 and Oz was evolved at the anode. 

Sol-gel processing in which a network of precipitated colloidal particles is treated by a conventional processing technique, such as cold pressing, hot pressing or sintering, in order to produce a ceramic article. 

As with cold pressing, HIP resolves the problems of density variation inside the ceramic, which is prevalent in hot pressed ceramics. When solid state sintering is performed before hot isostatic pressing, the combined process is called sinter-HIP or post-HIP. 

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