I. Solid State Sintering. - Towards the Understanding of the Process of Sintering. - Rate Controlled Sintering Revisited. - On the Mechanism of Grain Boundary Elimination from Sintering Neck. - Effect of Particle Size Distribution on Sintering. - Contribution to Investigation of the Sintering Process from the Point of Sintering Diagrams. - Dislocation Structure of Nickel Powder and its Role in the Sintering Process. - II. Fine Particles. - Twin Formation During Sintering of Micron and Submicron Sized Copper Particles. - Surface Relaxation Dynamics of Geometric Structure and Macrokinetics of Densification During Sintering of Ultrafine Powders. - Theoretical Analysis of Metal Particle Cooling in the Rotating Electrode Process. - Preparation of Molybdenum Powders by Rotating Electrode Process. - Variable Influencing the Sintering of MgO. - III. Activated Sintering. - Activated Sintering. - Dislocation-Activated Sintering Processes. - The Dependence of Sinterability of Ni-Added W-Powder Compact on the Contact Neck Size of W-Particles. - Metal Activated Recrystallization and Creep of Tungsten Fibres. - IV. Liquid Phase Sintering. - Macropore Filling During Hot Isostatic Pressing of Liquid Phase Sintered Ceramics. - Formation of Residual Porosities During Liquid Phase Sintering of W-Ni-Fe. - Fundamental Study of the Later Stages of Liquid Phase Sintering of a Ni Base P/M Superalloy-Metallographic Observations on Quenched Supersolidus-Sintered Materials. - Observation of Liquid Phase Sintering of a High Speed Steel Powder. - V. Hot Pressing and Hot Isostatic Pressing. - The Processing of a Permalloy-Magnetite Composite by Hydrothermal Reaction Sintering. - Densification During Hot Isostatic Pressing of a High Temperature Ni-Alloy. - The Preparation of Very Small Grain Size Compacts of Lead Telluride. -Microstructural Features of Transparent PLZT Ceramics. - Sintering and Microstructure of PZT-ZrO2 Composites. - VI. Sintering of Multiphase Systems. - Sintering in Chemically Heterogeneous Systems. - Calculation of Phase Diagrams. - Structural Evolution During the Sintering of SnO2 and SnO2-2 Mole% CuO. - Inhibition of the Grain Growth in PZT Ceramics by Doping with Neodymium Oxide. - Controlled Grain Growth in Ceramics. - Influence of Dewatering of the Yttrium-Zirconium Hidroxide Precipitates on the Sintering Behaviour of Their Calcined Products. - Sintering and Microstructure Development in the System BaTiO3-CaTiO3-TiO2. - The Influence of Aggregates on the Sintering of MgCr2O4-TiO2 Solid Solution. - The Influence of Sintering Parameters and Subsequent Thermal Treatment on U-I Characteristics and Degradation of ZnO Varistors. - Sintering of Alumina in Oxygen and Nitrogen Containing Liquids. - Chemically Driven Pore Growth. - Magnetic Properties of Sintered Fe-Sn Cores. - The Influence of Structural Factors on Mechanical Properties of Sintered Materials. - Sintering of Iron Powder with an Addition of Ferromanganese. - VII. Non-Oxide Ceramics. - Effect of Additives on the Cold Compaction Behaviour of SiC Powder. - Sintering of Nonmetallic Nitrides. - New Experimental Data in the C-Fe-W C-Co-W C-Fe-Ni-W and C-Co-Ni-W Systems Application to Sintering Conditions of Cemented Carbides Optimization of Steel Binder Composition by Partial Factorial Experimens. - VIII. International Cooperation. - International Cooperation in High Technology Ceramics. - International Program Committee. - Contributors. Language: English