@phdthesis{Delporte2009,
  author    = {Delporte, Marc},
  title     = {A phenomenological approach to the prediction of material behaviours during co-sintering},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-44235},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2009},
  abstract  = {This work deals with the sintering of multi-material composites. It aims at the establishment of an alternative to the existing complex models for sintering. The development of the associated experimental procedure is also included in this work. The developed material model must be able to predict (i) the sintering kinetics and (ii) the viscous moduli of a material. An experimental approach with free sintering and hot-forging measurements is favoured in this work. The prediction of the sintering kinetics is addressed with the construction of a map of sintering kinetics data: the Master Sintering Diagram (MSD). The MSD is based on a generalized equation for solid-state diffusion, thus is suitable for any thermal activated diffusion. The MSD allows the prediction of sintering kinetics for a large range of temperatures and external loads. A novel approach to the determination of the viscous moduli is developed in this work: the cyclic unloading method. It is a hot-forging measurement (sintering under uniaxial compression) where the applied load is released for short periods. The measurements are carried out with continuous heating, so that the viscous moduli are determined over large ranges of temperatures and densities. The advantage of this method is the measurement of the viscous moduli in anisotropic microstructures. The material model is validated in two steps. Firstly, the predictions of sintering kinetics with the MSD are compared with experimental results: changes of thermal profile and changes of load are predicted with a maximum deviation of 10\%. Secondly, the experimentally determined viscous moduli are used for the prediction of a bi-layer curvature using models for warpage from literature. The prediction is qualitatively good for a maximum deviation of 27\%. The study of a sintering glass-ceramic tape on a rigid substrate is presented. It shows that this co-sintering problem can be qualitatively investigated with requirement of the material model. The formation of anisotropy intrinsic to the hot-forging experiments is also reported in this work. It appears to be a important point to address in the future for a better understanding of the cosintering.},
  subject      = {Sintern},
  language  = {en}
}