The September 2022 issue of ACerS Bulletin is now available online.
In this month’s issue, we look at how additive manufacturing is going increasingly mainstream in a variety of markets. The cover story by authors John Zaengle, S.K. Sundaram, and Shawn Allan explores how additive manufacturing could help accelerate development of yttria-stabilized zirconia and lithium silicate materials for energy generation and storage applications. A second story by author Rick Lucas looks at how binder jetting enables manufacturing of a silicon carbide nuclear fuel innovation by Ultra Safe Nuclear.
In addition to the feature stories, the “Deciphering the Discipline” column describes a single-step process for ceramic additive manufacturing. The “Business and Market View” column provides a broad look at how additive manufacturing is settling into the mainstream.
This issue contains the annual announcement of ACerS Awards of 2022. In addition to this year’s Distinguished Life Members—Sylvia M. Johnson, Tatsuki Ohji, and Kent Weisenstein—the Society will elevate 19 members to Fellow and recognize many more outstanding members with various Society, Division, and Class awards during the ACerS Annual Honor and Awards Banquet Reception on Oct. 10, 2022, in Pittsburgh, Penn.
This volume of the ACerS Bulletin is publishing during the United Nations International Year of Glass. A regular column highlighting the International Year appears in each issue, and the seventh column by Thomas Jüngling looks at how the DGG centennial was celebrated at the International Congress on Glass in July 2022.
Also included in this issue is the latest Ceramic & Glass Manufacturing, which explores the importance of quality in manufacturing. The main story contains interviews with Andrea Kazmierczak (Saint-Gobain, R&D process leader) and Doug Doza (Allied Mineral Products, executive vice president) about cultivating a quality of culture at their respective companies. An accompanying article by Charles Williston of HammerTek Corp. discusses the benefits of using HammerTek’s Smart Elbow deflection elbows to prevent blowouts and preserve purity at CoorsTek’s Center for Advanced Materials (Golden, Colo.).
Finally, see highlights from the first-ever Pan American Ceramics Congress and Ferroelectrics Meeting of Americas, and check out a 3D-printed anteater that students created for Cements 2022.
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