Peculiarities of compaction during sintering of high-disperse tungsten powder porous bodies depending on heat treatment

A fall in the activity of tungsten powder obtained by reduction at a final temperature of 950 deg C and annealed before pressing at 1700 deg C and above is shown to be due to a decrease in the inner porosity of the particles, their contraction and rounding-off rather than to their enlargement in the maximum value of porous channel contractions in a pressed part ans its behaviour during sintering. A preliminary heat treatment of tungsten powders obtained by reduction at a final temperature of 700 deg C, has a non-monotonic effect on their activity in sintering. Formation of a new porous structure is found responsible for the behaviour of a porous body in sintering for tungsten powders during short-term (tau 30 s) shrinkage- free sintering of pressed parts, namely: an increase in the maximum values of porous channel contractions. A correction is established between volume shrinkage and the maximum value of contractions in enhanced capillaries