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Influence of Temperature Gradients on Sintering: Experimental Tests of a Theory
Author(s) -
Beruto Dario,
Botter Rodolfo,
Searcy Alan W.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of the american ceramic society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.9
H-Index - 196
eISSN - 1551-2916
pISSN - 0002-7820
DOI - 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1989.tb06106.x
Subject(s) - sintering , isothermal process , materials science , temperature gradient , diffusion , concentration gradient , surface diffusion , thermodynamics , phase (matter) , activation energy , composite material , chemistry , chromatography , adsorption , meteorology , physics , organic chemistry
The H 2 O‐catalyzed sintering of MgO in temperature gradients between 1303 and 1233 K is compared to sintering of isothermal samples. Both the changes in sample dimensions in planes normal to the temperature gradients and the increases in density for a fixed sintering time are greater than predicted on the assumption that densification in a temperature gradient is a function only of each local temperature in the gradient. Under the conditions used, neither vapor transport nor transport through a liquid phase is important. The results, therefore, support a recent prediction that temperature gradients supplement surface energy changes in driving sintering and related processes not only by vapor transport, as expected from earlier studies, but also by a surface, grainboundary, or bulk diffusion path.