Abstract
Porous aluminum–bronze compacts formed from prealloyed metastable (supersolidus) powder were heated either by plasma or by a resistive furnace technique. The plasma heating was performed in two different setups: (i) Hollow Cathode Discharge (HCD) method and (ii) Shielded Cathode Discharge (SCD) method. All experiments were carried out for 12 min in hydrogen at temperatures ranging from 673 to 1323 K. In HCD, for temperatures above 773 K, a fully filled, non-porous region was obtained in the center of the compacts, exhibiting a quite different behavior than that obtained using either SCD or resistive techniques. In these cases, uniformly dispersed condensed micro-regions were detected in samples treated at temperatures higher than 1223 K. These observations are discussed in terms of the heating mechanism, mass transfer and behavior of supersolidus powder particles. A simple physical model for the creation of the central fully filled region obtained by HCD is introduced.
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