Identification of the Norton-Green Compaction Model for the Prediction of the Ti-6Al-4V Densification During the Spark Plasma Sintering Process

One of the main challenges for the industrialization of the spark plasma sintering (SPS) is to resolve issues linked to the compaction of real parts with complex shapes. The modeling of powder compaction is an interesting tool to predict how the densification field varies during sintering. However, expressing the behavior law which reflect the powder compaction is often a difficult and long step in the model establishment. In this paper, a simple methodology for the identification of the densification parameters is proposed. Dense and porous creep tests combined with SPS die compaction tests are employed to determine a complete densification law on a Ti-6Al-4V alloy directly in a SPS machine. The compaction model obtained is successfully validated through prediction of the densification of new SPSed samples.