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By Howard Ferguson Anyone who buys P/M parts in the heat-treated condition or who performs heat treating in-house knows the difficulty of testing consistent properties and size control. Most commercial heat treaters base their pricing on the weight capacity of their furnace baskets and how many furnace hours it will take to process the load. […]

By Chaman Lall, Ph.D., China Metal Powder VP-Mfg. & Technology Components manufactured by powder metallurgy are being used in increasingly demanding applications and environments, which dictates that the optimum performance be obtained from these materials. One aid in the achievement of this goal is the appropriate utilization of high temperature sintering. In this review, the fundamentals and thermodynamic […]