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The changes of bulk density and microstructures during heating and liquid phase sintering of 98W-1Ni-1Fe compacts prepared from 1 and 5 μm W powders have been observed in order to characterize the densification behavior. The compact prepared from a fine (1 μm) W powder begins to densify rapidly at about 1200°C in the solid state during heating, attaining about 95 pct density upon reaching the liquid phase sintering temperature of 1460°C. The compact prepared from a coarse (5 μm) W powder begins to densify rapidly at about 1400°C in the solid state, attaining about 87 pct density upon reaching the liquid phase sintering temperature. Thus, the skeleton of grains is already formed prior to liquid formation. During the isothermal liquid phase sintering, substantial grain growth occurs, and the liquid flows into both open and closed pores, filling them sequentially from the regions with small cross-sections. The grains subsequently grow, into, the liquid pockets which have been formed at the pore sites. The sequential pore filling by first liquid thus is shown to be the dominant densification process during the liquid phase sintering of this alloy, as has been demonstrated earlier with spherical model pores and as predicted theoretically.
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Park, JK., Kang, SJ.L., Eun, K.Y. et al. Microstructural change during liquid phase sintering of W−Ni−Fe alloy. Metall Trans A 20, 837–845 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02651650
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