Papers by Keyword: Armour Plate

Abstract: Field-assisted sintering technology also known as spark plasma sintering is starting to be recognised as a potential route for metals processing and near net shaping for a range of sectors. FAST/SPS is an effective way of rapidly consolidating powder and particulate feedstocks, including waste streams such as machining swarf into shaped billets with as-forged properties. FAST/SPS can also be used as an intermediate step prior to conventional closed die forging or hot rolling (FAST-forge and FAST-roll, respectively). The solid-state technique has also been demonstrated to be an effective way to functionally grade and diffusion bond different alloys in the same FAST billet (FAST-DB). In this paper, we summarize some of the developments at The University of Sheffield around FAST/SPS over the last few years, with examples from different particulate types for a range of different sectors.