Powder Metallurgy Technology and Equipment: Selected Topics

Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters BCI (WoS).Powder metallurgy is one of the leading processes used for forming engineering components. The technology, as developed at the beginning of the 20th century, has since advanced significantly from both the materials and energy-conservation points of view. Novel, and automated, equipment has played a significant role in enhancing the growth of the powder metallurgy industry. The present work includes, in addition to the editor's introductory paper, eleven invited papers from organizations of international repute. In brief, the book presents expert assessments from the major metal-powder and powder-metallurgy equipment-makers in the world. This distinguishes it from other works, which are contributed mainly by academics. The book concentrates on particular topics of interest and does not attempt to be comprehensive.Representatives of equipment manufacturers in Europe, India, and the US describe current practices in making, handling, and using metal powder and the equipment for doing so. Their topics include advanced screening to produce high performance powdered metals, capabilities of conventional and advanced powder compacting presses, industrial furnaces in powder metallurgy and their process technological background, debinding equipment for powder metal injection molded parts, sintering equipment for powder metal injection molded parts, and measuring the high-temperature mechanical properties of sintered products by the impulse excitation technique.