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Characterization of Microstructures Before, During and After Densification

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The microstructural characterization of materials is a critical step to understand structure--property relationships in sintered materials. Altering the processing parameters during sintering can lead to variations of the materials microstructure and, hence, their macroscopic properties. This chapter reviews experimental techniques for the atomic resolution characterization of microstructural defects. Emphasis is given to a variety of electron microscopy techniques and how these can be used to gain a more fundamental understanding of sintering behavior, such as defect segregation and grain growth. The recent advent of novel in situ electron microscopy techniques has enabled the atomic-scale investigation of densification mechanisms and their kinetics that occur during sintering. A review of available techniques is presented and first experimental results are discussed.

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Acknowledgments

Discussions with Drs. T.B. Holland, A.K. Mukherjee, Z.A. Munir, J. Groza (UC Davis) and S. Schwartz and O. Guillon (TU Darmstadt) are gratefully acknowledged. Help provided by Dr. T. LaGrange (LLNL) for the acquisition of orientation images by TEM was invaluable. The author recognizes his graduate and undergraduate students for their diligent work on the presented projects, specifically Ms. C.S. Bonifacio, Mr. H. Ghadialy, Ms. M. Matsuno, Mr. J. Rufner, and Mr. A. Thron. This work was funded partially by UC Davis start-up funds and a CAREER award from the US National Science Foundation (DMR-0955638).

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van Benthem, K. (2012). Characterization of Microstructures Before, During and After Densification. In: Castro, R., van Benthem, K. (eds) Sintering. Engineering Materials, vol 35. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31009-6_10

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