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Scientific and technological approaches for sintering and joining of metallic materials by SPS

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The flash sintering technique (commonly known as spark plasma sintering, SPS) generates a craze worldwide. This process allows a powder densification from speeds generally 10 to 100 times higher than those of the traditional sintering techniques. In addition, this allows the synthesis of innovative and original dense materials, with a controlled microstructure, complex shapes and, sometimes large sizes. However, the control of scaling and microstructure homogeneity of parts obtained by such a process requires a perfect knowledge of technical equipment including flash sintering to reduce thermal gradients. Modeling is a valuable aid to achieve the improvement of its control. Another potentiality of this technology, the welding of metal without matter, throught industrial demands offers an attractive alternative method to classical welding methods. Technological aspects remain, however, to master to go towards achieving good multi-materials.