Sintering and Related Phenomena : Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Sintering and Related Phenomena, Held at the University of Notre Dame, June 5–7, 1972

In this volume there is set forth the text of the Pro­ ceedings of the Third International Conference on Sintering and Related Phenomena, which conference was held at the University of Notre Dame on June 5-7, 1972. This conference was the seventh in the series of University Conferences on Ceramic Science organized yearly by a happy "confederation" of four institutions; North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina; the University of California, Berkeley, California; Alfred University, Alfred, New York; and the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. The 1972 Conference at Notre Dame was devoted to prob­ lems of sintering and allied phenomena. Previous gatherings at Notre Dame took place in 1954 and 1965. The proceedings of the first Notre Dame Conference were not published by reason of the conviction that a free forum similar in spirit to the Gordon Conferences should prevail. However, discus­ sions of the second Conference were preserved for posterity in a rather substantial volume (894 pp) published by Gordon and Breach in 1967. As the spirit of free exchange of ideas was not diminished by threat of publication of the revela­ tions of the second Notre Dame Conference, we deemed it just that the 1972 Proceedings be made public. Thus the present volume is a report upon progress realized in our science during the past six years. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Structure of Point Defects in Ionic Materials....Pages 1-18 Point Defects in Alkaline Earth Fluorides....Pages 19-27 Diffusion in Non-Stoichiometric Compounds....Pages 29-47 Ionic Conductivity of Rubidium Chloride....Pages 49-54 Interdiffusion Studies in Some Oxide Systems....Pages 55-63 Grain Growth During Sintering....Pages 65-80 Microstructure and Grain Growth in Ceramics in the Presence of a Liquid Phase....Pages 81-108 Study on the Size and Location of Pores During Grain Growth in Hydrogen Sintered Al 2 O 3 ....Pages 109-118 Ostwald Ripening — A Survey....Pages 119-149 The Effect of Size and Distribution of Second Phase Particles and Voids on Sintering....Pages 151-163 Electron Microscopy Observations on the Crystallization of Thin Films of Tantalum Oxide....Pages 165-170 The Morphology of Interfacial Gratings at the Al 2 O 3 -Ni Interface....Pages 171-176 Progress in Sintering Theory....Pages 177-190 Initial Stages of Sintering of Copper and Nickel....Pages 191-199 Investigation of the Early Stages of Sintering by Transmission Electron Micrography....Pages 201-208 Computer Simulation Studies of Pore Behavior in Solids....Pages 209-216 Pore Shrinkage and Ostwald Ripening....Pages 217-224 Relationship Between Densification, Crystal Growth, and Mechanisms of Formation in Ceramics....Pages 225-245 Simultaneous Plastic Flow and Diffusion During Sintering....Pages 247-252 Activated Sintering of Alumina by Quenching Point Defects....Pages 253-260 Self-diffusion in Sintering of Nonspherical Metallic Particles....Pages 261-268 Non-Isothermal Initial Stage Sintering of Silver....Pages 269-274 Studies in Densification Dynamics....Pages 275-282 Sintering Kinetics of α-Nb 2 O 5 in Non-Isothermal Conditions....Pages 283-292 Sintering and Desintering of Thoria....Pages 293-299 Sintering of Submicronic Particles of Metallic Oxides....Pages 301-310 Sintering Behaviour of Boehmite Gel....Pages 311-321 Sintering of Fine Ferric Oxide Particles....Pages 323-329 Sintering Theories and Industrial Practice....Pages 331-350 Problems in the Extension of Sintering Theories to Real Systems....Pages 351-362 Interpretation of Sintering Kinetics Data....Pages 363-368 Mechanisms of Sintering During Hot Pressing and Recent Technological Advances....Pages 369-394 Reactive Hot-Pressing of Colloidal Boehmite....Pages 395-407 Final Stage Densification During Pressure Sintering of Pure and Lithium Doped Nickel Oxide....Pages 409-416 Analysis of the Pressure Sintering Kinetics of Ceramic Oxides....Pages 417-424 Fibrous Ceramic Materials from Organic Precursors....Pages 425-430 Oxidation State Control of Volatile Species in Sintering....Pages 431-437 Investigation of the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Highly Porous Calcium Aluminates....Pages 439-448 Back Matter....Pages 449-451