MODELING OF THE PROCESS OF ELECTRIC-DISCHARGE 
SINTERING OF METAL POWDERS

K. E. Belyavin, D. V. Min'ko, and O. O. Kuznechik

UDC 621.762.5

Consideration has been given to the process of electric-discharge 
sintering (EDS) of a powder fill in passing an electric current through 
it. The dependences for calculation of the heat release, the efficiency 
of an EDS unit, the resistance of a powder fill, and the temperature 
in the contact zone have been obtained. An algorithm for calculation 
of the technological parameters of the process of EDS has been given.

Institute of Powder Metallurgy, National Academy 
of Sciences of Belarus, 41 Platonov Str., Minsk, 220071, Belarus. 
Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 77, No. 3, pp. 
136-143, May-June, 2004. Original article submitted February 
28, 2003.