1st Edition

An Introduction to Powder Metallurgy

By F. Thummler, R. Oberacker Copyright 1994
346 Pages
by CRC Press

346 Pages
by CRC Press

This is a comprehensive introduction with some emphasis of the fundamentals of the different processing steps, but, and pays attention also to the main powder metallurgy products including their applications. Since the boundaries between powder metallurgy and advanced ceramics are not definitely fixed and since they are sometimes competitive products, the description of processing includes, to... Read more
1 Introduction (Dr I. Jenkins) 2 Powder Production Techniques 3 Power Properties and Characteristics 4 Powder Conditioning and Heat Treatment 5 Health and Safety 6 Compaction and Shaping 7 Sintering 8 Sintering Atmospheres and Equipment 9 Porosity and Pore-Related Properties 10 Production Routes in Practice 11 The Products of Poivder Metallurgy and their Applications

Biography

F. THUMMLER Dr. -Ing. habil., FIM Professor Emeritus for Materials, University and Nuclear Research Centre, Karlsruhe. R. OBERACKER Dr.-Ing., Central Laboratory Institute for Ceramics in Mechanical Engineering University of Karlsruhe