Solid State Sintering of Micrometric and Nanometric WC-Co Powders

  • Escobar, J.A. (CIPEM, Mechanical Engineering, Universidad de los Andes) ;
  • Campo, F.A. (CIPEM, Mechanical Engineering, Universidad de los Andes) ;
  • Serrano, C.H. (CIPEM, Mechanical Engineering, Universidad de los Andes)
  • Published : 2006.09.24

Abstract

A solid stage sinterizacion model of the WC-Co is applied on this work. These results are compaired with the experimental data obtained for nanometric and micrometric sinter powder in an electric furnace and micrometric in a plasma reactor (using Abnormal Glow Discharge AGD). The correlations obtained allow the prediction of the sintering behavior in AGD for nanometric powder. The activation of the solid state sintering is shown with the decraease of the WC size and the use of AGD

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