Field-assisted Sintering: Science and Applications

This book represents the first ever scientific monograph including an in-depth analysis of all major field-assisted sintering techniques. Until now, the electromagnetic field-assisted technologies of materials processing were lacking a systematic and generalized description in one fundamental publication; this work promotes the development of generalized concepts and of comparative analyses in this emerging area of materials fabrication. 

This book describes modern technologies for the powder processing-based fabrication of advanced materials. New approaches for the development of well-tailored and stable structures are thoroughly discussed. Since the potential of traditional thermo-mechanical methods of material treatment is limited due to inadequate control during processing, the book addresses ways to more accurately control the resultant material's structure and properties by an assisting application of electro-magnetic fields. The book describes resistance sintering, high-voltage consolidation, sintering by low-voltage electric pulses (including spark plasma sintering), flash sintering, microwave sintering, induction heating sintering, magnetic pulse compaction and other field-assisted sintering techniques. 

• Includes an in-depth analysis of all major field-assisted sintering techniques;
  
• Explains new techniques and approaches for material treatment;
  
• Provides detailed descriptions of spark plasma sintering, microwave sintering, high-voltage consolidation, magnetic pulse compaction, and various other approaches when field-assisted treatment is applied.
  

Eugene Olevsky is Interim Dean and Distinguished Professor of the College of Engineering of the San Diego State University, USA. Dr. Olevsky is the Director of the San Diego State University Powder Technology Laboratory. Prof. Olevsky has obtained two M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics and Ph.D. degree in Materials Engineering. Dr. Olevsky’s primary area of expertise is in experimentation and computational modeling on powder processing, including novel ceramic, metallic, and composite materials synthesis. Eugene Olevsky is the author of over 500 scientific publications and of more than 150 plenary, keynote, and invited presentations in the area of sintering research. Prof. Olevsky has supervised scientific sintering studies of more than 100 post-doctoral, graduate, and undergraduate students. Prof. Olevsky is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society, a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fellow of the ASM International, Humboldt Fellow; he is a Full Member of the International Institute of Science of Sintering. Dr. Olevsky’s most recent research is focused on field-assisted sintering techniques and sintering-assisted additive manufacturing.

Dina V. Dudina graduated from Siberian State Industrial University, Novokuznetsk, Russia. She obtained a Ph.D. (Candidate of Sciences) degree in Solid State Chemistry in 2004 after completing her postgraduate studies at the Institute of Solid State Chemistry and Mechanochemistry, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia. She conducted her postdoctoral research at the University of California, Davis, USA and Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, France. In 2017, she defended a habilitation thesis in Engineering Sciences in Russia. At present, she is a senior scientist with Lavrentyev Institute of Hydrodynamics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk. She teaches Materials Science courses at Novosibirsk State Technical University. Dina Dudina is the author/co-author of more than 90 publications in the area of powder processing, sintering and composite materials.