TY - CHAP AU - Giulia Franceschin AU - Nancy Flores‐Martínez AU - Gabriela Vázquez‐ Victorio AU - Souad Ammar AU - Raul Valenzuela ED - Igor Shishkovsky Y1 - 2017-12-20 PY - 2017 T1 - Sintering and Reactive Sintering by Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) N2 - Powder-based materials and treatment technologies rank high in contemporary scientific-technical progress due to their numerous significant technoeconomic qualities. Sintering of such materials allows saving on materials and lowering the cost price of the product, as well as manufacturing complex composite materials with unique combinations of qualities. Materials of record high values of some physic-mechanical and also biochemical characteristics can be obtained owing to structural peculiarities of super dispersed condition. Sintering of functional materials for innovative perspectives in automotive and aeronautical engineering, space technology, lightweight construction, mechanical engineering, modern design, and many other applications requires established relationship in the materials-process-properties system. Therefore, the industry being interested in understanding theoretical modeling, and control over behavior of such powdered materials has promoted the research activities of this manuscript's authors. BT - Sintering of Functional Materials SP - Ch. 6 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.68871 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.68871 SN - 978-953-51-3757-3 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-18 ER -