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Viscous sintering of unimodal and bimodal cylindrical packings with shrinking pores

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2003

DARREN CROWDY
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, 180 Queen's Gate, London, UK email: [email protected]

Abstract

Calculations, based on exact solutions, of the viscous sintering of simple packings with unimodal and bimodal distributions of particle sizes with shrinking pores are performed. The case of square unit cells is considered in detail. It is found that, for the most part, pore shrinkage times have very weak dependence on the precise details of the pore shape and that accurate estimates of total pore shrinkage times can be obtained based only on knowledge of the initial relative density (green density) and unit cell size. An exception is found when the particle packing is loose, the enclosed pore having a large perimeter-to-area ratio. By studying two different square packings of equal-sized particles it is shown that the looser packing can exhibit dilation, rather than densification, in the early stage of sintering.

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Copyright
2003 Cambridge University Press

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