This paper investigates the use of numerical simulations to describe the solid-state diffusion of a sintering stage during a powder hot embossing process for micro-fluidic components with 316L stainless steel powders. Finite element analysis based on a thermo-elasto-viscoplastic model was established to describe the densification process of a stainless-steel porous component during solid state sintering. The numerical analyses, which were performed on a 3D micro-structured component with different powder volume loading and specially to consider the thermal debinding effect to propose a full debinding sintering simulation, demonstrated that the FE simulation results are in better agreement with the experimental ones.
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