Powder Metallurgy: The process and its applications

This extensive introduction to the Powder Metallurgy (PM) process provides a detailed overview of a dynamic technology.
The following pages guide the reader through the steps required to produce components via the Powder Metallurgy route, highlighting the material choices, design considerations and economic advantages of the process. The guide includes information explaining the properties achievable and looks at the international standards relating to the Powder Metallurgy industry.
- The Powder Metallurgy Process
- Why Powder Metallurgy?
- Markets for Powder Metallurgy components
- Economic considerations for PM structural parts
- High density, high performance PM structural parts
- Designing for Powder Metallurgy
- Materials
- Powder production technologies
- Mixing
- Forming
- Sintering
- Properties of PM materials
- PM standards
- Further reading