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Main Authors: Seiz, Marco, Takaki, Tomohiro
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07353
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author Seiz, Marco
Takaki, Tomohiro
author_facet Seiz, Marco
Takaki, Tomohiro
contents Sintering is a widespread manufacturing process, accounting for a significant portion of global energy expenditure. However, controlling this process has been mostly a trial-and-error process, being costly in both time and money. The recent advance of high heating rate sintering methods, which promise higher energy efficiency and better properties, only adds to this. This paper aims to reduce these costs by shedding light on the microstructural evolution during high heating rate sintering, which will allow for quicker parameter optimization and improved properties. The focus will be on how a representative microstructure changes locally as well as globally while resolving grains and the green body at scale, which no prior paper has done. A representative multiphysics phase-field solver is employed, incorporating a novel particle-based temperature model, which recovered many characteristics typical of high heating rate sintering. Comparing the simulation data to experimental data showed reasonable agreement over a large density range without parameter adjustment. Furthermore, the advance of a sintering front including grain growth effects could be shown simulatively for the first time in literature. These findings suggest that the model can be used for the design of practical heating schedules for the sintering of novel materials.
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spellingShingle High heating rate effects in sintering: A phase-field study of La-doped alumina
Seiz, Marco
Takaki, Tomohiro
Materials Science
Sintering is a widespread manufacturing process, accounting for a significant portion of global energy expenditure. However, controlling this process has been mostly a trial-and-error process, being costly in both time and money. The recent advance of high heating rate sintering methods, which promise higher energy efficiency and better properties, only adds to this. This paper aims to reduce these costs by shedding light on the microstructural evolution during high heating rate sintering, which will allow for quicker parameter optimization and improved properties. The focus will be on how a representative microstructure changes locally as well as globally while resolving grains and the green body at scale, which no prior paper has done. A representative multiphysics phase-field solver is employed, incorporating a novel particle-based temperature model, which recovered many characteristics typical of high heating rate sintering. Comparing the simulation data to experimental data showed reasonable agreement over a large density range without parameter adjustment. Furthermore, the advance of a sintering front including grain growth effects could be shown simulatively for the first time in literature. These findings suggest that the model can be used for the design of practical heating schedules for the sintering of novel materials.
title High heating rate effects in sintering: A phase-field study of La-doped alumina
topic Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07353