Powder Metallurgy (PM) has emerged as one of the most competitive process with considerable reduction on materials loss, minimum machining steps, lower energy consumption and cost reduction. A wide range of components with complex shapes can be produced from metals, ceramics and composites through this route. P/M components are used in automotive, aerospace, hard tools, energy sectors and bio-implants to name a few. This field offers a lot of opportunities as well as challenges to both, Academia and Industries. Therefore, there is a constant need to update them about the emerging technologies.

This workshop would include an overview of the powder production techniques, shaping and compaction processes, sintering operations involving pressure less sintering, hot pressing and hot iso-static processing, etc. The major aim of this workshop is to encourage faculty and scholars to initiate research in this domain. Various specific areas which have scopes for research exploration would be introduced, such as application of dilatometer as one of the major tool for characterization and monitoring the sintering process to carry out the fundamental research; relatively newer sintering techniques such as microwave sintering and spark plasma sintering, etc. would be covered.

Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering at IIT Hyderabad is organising a TEQIP workshop on "Future Trends in Powder Metallurgy and Sintering " exclusively for colleges registered as TEQIP colleges.

Date and Time

Dates: December 1-2, 2014

Registration: Last Date November 15,2014

Venue:

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
Ordinance factory Estate, Yeddumailaram - 502205