Coalescence of individual ceramic particles into a continuous solid phase at a high temperature.

The solidification and fusing of compressed powdered metal.

The welding together of powdered particles of a substance or mixture by heating to a temperature below the melting-point of the components. The particles stick together and form a sinter.

The generalized process by which high surface area materials lose surface area without melting.

A process of fusing fine iron ore and iron-bearing materials, such as mill scale, with fluxes by applying heat on a moving grate, so that the product (sinter) may be charged into a blast furnace without impeding the upward flow of heated gases.

The process of holding a fusible pressed-powder article at a temperature just below its melting point for a period of time to fuse (sinter) the particles together.

Sintering is a process in which solid wastes are combined into a porous mass that can then be added to the blast furnace. These wastes include iron ore fines, pollution control dust, coke breeze, water treatment plant sludge, and flux.

The bonding of powder compacts by the application of heat to enable one or more of several mechanisms of atom movement into the particle contact interfaces to occur; the mechanisms are: viscous flow, liquid phase solution-precipitation, surface diffusion, bulk diffusion, and evaporation-condensation. Densification is a usual result of sintering.

Heating clay to the point at which it will no longer break down when exposed to water.

Bonding of particles in a mass of metal powder by molecular (or atomic) attraction in the solid state, through the application of heat, causing strengthening of the powder mass and normally resulting in densification and recrystallization due to material transport. Sintering (Noun)-See P/M Part.

The formation of large particles from a heap of small, fine particles through the application of heat. In the sintering process, the temperature remains below the melting point.

The process of bonding adjacent surfaces of particles in a powder by heating. Sintering strengthens a powder mass and usually increases density.

The tendency of some powders and powder coating materials to agglomerate during storage.

Fusion of a spirally applied tape wrap jacket by the use of high heat to a homogenous continuum. Usually employed for fluorocarbon, non-extrudable materials.

The agglomeration of particles by heating; the material need not be completely melted.

The thermal process which bonds and densifies the molded powders. It increases the compact strength via diffusion or related atomic level events. Most of the mechanical, magnetic or other properties of a PIM part are developed in the sintering cycle.

The heating of a mass of fine particles (e.g. lead concentrates) below the melting point, causing agglomeration to form larger particles.

Sintering means to heat a powdered substance without thoroughly melting it, causing it to fuse into a solid but porous mass.

By heat treating below the melting point of the metal, adjacent molecular particle surfaces of metallic powders can be bonded. High temperature vacuum sintering is performed at elevated temperatures up to 2650 degrees F. This results in finished parts with higher density and strength.

The process of vapor diffusion which joins individual snow grains together forming an ice skeleton of connected grains. The eventual effect is a stronger snow layer.

A powder metallurgy manufacturing process for filters, formed components and bearings. Metal powder is compressed into an element, and the element is then sintered between 700 and 1200 ?C. Sintering takes place at a temperature less than the melting point of the metal powder.

The partial welding together of powder particles at temperature near the melting point.

Process of bonding either a metal or powder by cold pressing it into a desired shape and then heating to form a strong cohesive body.

the bonding together of ice crystals.

The bonding of adjacent surfaces of particles of a mass of powder or a compact by heating to a suitable temperature and cooling.

The process of heating a mixture of materials so that they become a coherent mass, but not melting them. See also Frit.

In forming articles from fusible powders, e.g., nylon, the process of holding the pressed-powder article at a temperature just below its melting point for a period of time. Particles are fused (sintered) together, but the mass as a whole does not melt.

Sintering is a method for making objects from powder, by heating the material (below its melting point) until its particles adhere to each other. Sintering is traditionally used for manufacturing ceramic objects, and has also found uses in such fields as powder metallurgy.