Master Sintering Curve - A Practical Approach to its Construction

Abstract

A practical method for the construction of MSC is presented in the paper. With the help of a few dilatometric sintering experiments the newly developed software calculates MSC and finds the optimal activation energy of a given material. The method was verified on cubic and tetragonal zirconia powder compacts and on two alumina powder compacts of different particle sizes. Also the possibility of predicting the sintering behaviour via MSC concept was presented.A practical method for the construction of MSC is presented in the paper. With the help of a few dilatometric sintering experiments the newly developed software calculates MSC and finds the optimal activation energy of a given material. The method was verified on cubic and tetragonal zirconia powder compacts and on two alumina powder compacts of different particle sizes. Also the possibility of predicting the sintering behaviour via MSC concept was presented.