
doi: 10.5772/53469
Pulse current auxiliary sintering (PCAS) originated from electric current auxiliary sintering technique (ECAS), whose history can be traced back to the year of 1922, when an American did a path-breaking work to heat oxide powders by an electric current and synthesized a dense material. Then in 1927, another man sintered metal powders by simultaneously ap‐ plying an electric current and a uniaxial mechanical load [1]. Since then, the synthesis tech‐ nique has been being improved and perfected by numerous researchers. Up to now, over 1800 papers have been reported on the subject of ECAS and the technique has come to a new level: the used electric current extended from constant direct current to alternating current or pulsed electric current; power source was firstly selected to produce electric current, then capacitor banks were used; loading conditions evolved from no loading to uniaxial mechan‐ ical loaded or even multi-axial loading, etc.. Since 1960s, the technique commences to be commercialized. So far, it has been used to synthesize a large family of materials, including ceramics, intermetallics, metal-ceramic and ceramic-ceramic composites with various pow‐ ders, such as elemental powders, pre-alloyed powders, pre-synthesized powders, or me‐ chanical milled powders.
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