Method for determining sintering shrinkage of a pre-sintered body
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1. Method for determining a sintering shrinkage of a pre-sintered body, the method comprising:
- providing a green preform having a predetermined full sintering shrinkage with at least one design feature;
pre-sintering the green preform to form a white body resulting in at least one changed dimension of the at least one design feature;
measuring the at least one changed dimension of the at least one design feature and recording the at least one changed dimension; and
,calculating an expected sintering shrinkage from the pre-sintered white body to a dense-sintered component using the recorded at least one changed dimension.
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A method for determining a sintering shrinkage of a pre-sintered body. The method includes providing a green preform with at least one design feature. The green-preform is pre-sintered to form a white body. At least one change in the at least one design feature with the pre-sintering is recorded. An expected sintering shrinkage to a dense-sintered component is determined using the recorded change.
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1. Method for determining a sintering shrinkage of a pre-sintered body, the method comprising:
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providing a green preform having a predetermined full sintering shrinkage with at least one design feature; pre-sintering the green preform to form a white body resulting in at least one changed dimension of the at least one design feature; measuring the at least one changed dimension of the at least one design feature and recording the at least one changed dimension; and
,calculating an expected sintering shrinkage from the pre-sintered white body to a dense-sintered component using the recorded at least one changed dimension. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. Method for determining a sintering shrinkage of a plurality of pre-sintered white bodies, the method comprising:
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measuring a dimension of a design feature of each of a sample of green preforms; sintering the sample of green preforms to form a corresponding sample of dense-sintered components so as to result in each dense-sintered component having a changed dimension of the respective design feature; measuring the respective changed dimensions of the sample of dense-sintered components; calculating an average changed dimension from the respective changed dimensions of the sample of dense-sintered components; providing a plurality of green preforms, each green preform having a design feature and the plurality of green preforms exceeding the sample of green preforms and corresponding sample of dense-sintered components; pre-sintering the plurality of green preforms to form a corresponding plurality of white bodies so as to result in each white body having a respective changed dimension of the respective design feature; measuring the changed dimension of the design feature of each of the plurality of white bodies; recording the changed dimension of each of the plurality of white bodies; and calculating an expected sintering shrinkage for each of the plurality of white bodies based on the respective changed dimension of the respective design feature and the average changed dimension of the sample of dense-sintered components.
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