| Scope |
The development of advanced sintering techniques, such as field-assisted sintering, spark plasma sintering, flash sintering, laser flash sintering, and cold sintering, has enabled material consolidation at significantly lower temperatures and shorter processing times. The resulting microstructure formation, along with the associated structure/property relationships, must be thoroughly understood to optimize material performance.
Tailoring sintering behavior, including microstructure evolution, grain boundary characteristics, local defect distributions, space charge effects, interfacial transport anisotropy, and texture, opens new opportunities for applications in both structural and functional materials.
This symposium focuses on the fundamental understanding and engineering of sintering across a wide range of applications, including structural and functional materials, and addresses current technological challenges in aeronautics, aerospace, defense, and energy sectors. Particular emphasis is placed on emerging sintering techniques that go beyond conventional thermal processing, as well as on the underlying mechanisms that drive these processes.
Accordingly, the symposium welcomes contributions on fundamental science as well as modeling and simulation approaches. It also encourages presentations addressing practical challenges in sintering applications, such as the sintering and co-firing of multi-material laminate structures, batteries, and dielectric components. Contributions related to green body shaping methods, such as pressing, slip casting, gel casting, and additive manufacturing and their influence on sintering behavior (e.g., anisotropy, biomimetic architectures) are also encouraged.
A key objective of this symposium is to foster knowledge transfer between modeling, fundamental science, processing, and industrial applications.
Potential Session Topics
Current Challenges in Sintering Science
• Sintering issues in solid-state batteries
• Sintering behavior of additively manufactured parts and lattice structures
• Selective laser sintering in additive manufacturing
• Laser flash sintering
• Cold sintering and hydrothermal processing
• Constrained sintering of multilayer materials
• Sintering of nanopowders
Field-Assisted Powder Consolidation Techniques
• Spark plasma sintering: fundamentals and applications
• Flash sintering
• Effects of electric fields on interfacial thermodynamics, segregation, and transport
• Fundamental mechanisms of electric field effects on sintering and grain growth
Fundamental Science of Sintering: Transport, Thermodynamics, and Modeling
• Effects of grain boundary and interfacial energies on densification and grain growth
• Role of complexions in densification and grain growth
• Liquid-phase and transient liquid-phase sintering
• In situ characterization of sintering and grain growth
• Strategies for grain growth control
• Modeling and simulation of microstructural evolution |