Abstract
In this work, porous Ni-718 superalloys were produced by use of a water soluble pore forming agent before sintering. Carbamide particles were used as the space-holder material. After mixing and compaction the space-holder particles were extracted using hot water leaching over a range of temperatures. The porous green parts were thermally debound to remove the paraffin wax under a pure argon atmosphere and then sintered at high vacuum. The effects of the volume fraction of space-holder particles on density and porosity were investigated. Microstructures were captured using optical and scanning electron microscopy. Also, compression tests were conducted on the sintered samples.

Key words
superalloys, metal foam, sintering

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