Design for Sintering 2 Club Project – towards a new methodology describing the anisotropy of dimensional changes

In the previous Design for Sintering Club Project the design procedure developed in previous studies has been applied to real industrial parts, aiming at verifying the reliability in predicting the anisotropic dimensional changes on sintering. Satisfactory results were obtained, and directions for further improvements were also highlighted, so that a new Club Project was proposed to the industrial partners involved in the first one. Design for Sintering 2 Club Project aims at improving the effectiveness and reliability of the design procedure, both enlarging the reference database, and investigating in depth the mechanisms responsible for anisotropic dimensional change on sintering. In the first part of the three years project the influence of geometry and green density is studied, considering different materials representing both solid-state sintering and liquid-phase sintering. New anisotropy parameter describing anisotropic dimensional changes is proposed based on the analysis of results.