Dear Naveen Kumar,

Could you provide more details on what you mean by conventional sintering?

Abdessabour Benamor

Sir, with conventional sintering, I mean sintering in a simple electric resistance heating furnace.

Using SPS, you'll get dense samples with less sintering time, providing less interfacial reactions between the matrix and the reinforcing phase. If you're using particle reinforcement type, you'll have better particle distribution. However, it is not impossible to get nearly full dense samples when using your method, especially if you have some low melting point phases that could provide a liquid media reducing porosity. In your case, you'll have to worry about, porosity since higher insertion of renforing phase will certainly increase porosity amount, higher sintering time will reduce porosity but will increase interfacial reactions between Mg matrix and the reinforcing phase. These interfacial reactions could be detrimental or beneficial it depends on the interfacial phases created and the property target. Particle distribution will be nice in your case if the temperature and time is well controlled. You'll probably find also precipitation of MgxAly at near areas around the reinforcing phases due to the creation high density areas of dislocations, favorite site of precipitates nucleation. I hope my answer will help you. Best regards.

Abdessabour Benamor

Thank you, sir. Your answer is beneficial.

If you need more knowledge of flash sintering, do let me so I can send you resources that might be helpful. That is what I am currently working on.

Emmanuel Anuoluwa Bamidele

Yes, sure. I would like to know more about flash sintering. Would you please tell me what is special about it?