Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) is an emerging powder metallurgy (PM) technology, which makes use of a pulsed electric current and compaction pressure for densification and sintering of powders. It is particularly suitable to process hard-to-sinter powders to the full density with a strict controlling of the microstructure due to the relatively low heat input. The work reported here was carried out during the doctoral school in the frame of an industrial research project in cooperation with K4Sint Srl (Trento, Italy), and Eurocoating SpA (Trento, Italy). The objective was the development of...