Skorohod-Olevsky Viscous Sintering Model Sensitivity to Temperature Distribution During the Sintering Process

This paper investigates the influence of temperature field non-uniformity on sintering simulation results using the Skorohod-Olevsky viscous sintering model. As a difference to previous studies, here a thermal transient analysis is performed to provide a detailed temperature field over the component within sintering time. Results obtained using uniform temperature distribution are compared to those obtained using a non-uniform distribution derived from a transient thermal analysis. Results are compared for different geometry sizes, that lead to different temperature non-uniformity levels. The study has shown that the temperature non-uniformity cannot always be neglected and should be considered as a possible source of modeling error.