Practical Applications of Hot-Isostatic Pressing Diagrams: Four Case Studies

摘要

The construction of mechanism-maps for hot isostatic pressing is described. Maps are constructed for a number of materials of commercial and scientific interest: a tool steel, a superalloy, Al2O3 and ice. They allow the processes involved in hot-isostatic pressing to be examined, and suggest ways of picking optimum combinations of pressure, temperature and time to give maximum density.