Bolzoni, LeandroRuiz Navas, Elisa MaríaNeubauer, E.Gordo Odériz, Elena2013-06-252013-06-252012-01-05Materials Chemistry and Physics, (2012), 131(3), 672-679.0254-0584https://hdl.handle.net/10016/17213Inductive hot-pressing is a field-assisted sintering process (FAST) in which an electrical current is used to enhance the densification of the powder. Inductive hot-pressing could be employed to enable titanium powder to reach a higher density in less time than the pressing and sintering process. In this study, titanium and titanium alloy powders with different features were processed by means of inductive hot-pressing. The influence of processing temperature on density, microstructure, quantity of interstitial elements and hardness was investigated. Generally, practically fully dense materials were obtained without any carbon pick-up, even if the materials were in contact with the graphite matrix during processing. Nevertheless, there was an increment of the nitrogen content and some oxygen pick-up, especially for the powders with smaller particle size. Hardness is not significantly affected by the pressing temperature, but it strongly depends on the amount of interstitials.application/pdfeng© ElsevierInductive hot-pressingPowder metallurgyTitaniumTi 6Al 4VTi 3Al 2.5VTi 6Al 7Nbresearch articleIngeniería IndustrialQuímicaMateriales10.1016/j.matchemphys.2011.10.034open accessAR/0000009747