“…The powder was then transferred to a Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) (FCT HP D10, FCT System GmbH, Frankenblick, Germany) [ 19 , 20 ] system to obtain a sintering of the billet with an outer diameter of 30 mm and a height of 20 mm, at 540 °C and constant pressure of 62.5 MPa. Heating of the powder mix was conducted in two stages, first with a heating rate of 76 °C/min between 30 and 450 °C, and then with a rate of 50 °C/min from 450 to 540 °C.…”