FS4: Ceramic/Carbon Reinforced Polymers

This focused session will cover ceramic/carbon reinforced polymer composites utilized in a wide range of industrial applications including energy, environment, biological, space, transportation, building, and sport. This symposium aims to bring together the technical community to share recent advances in experimental or simulation approaches for the fabrication, processing, characterization, properties, and modeling of ceramic, ceramic/carbon reinforced polymers. The role of inorganic phases in the composites, in which that can provide various functionalities such as mechanical, thermal, biological, insulation, electric, chemical resistant and wear properties, composed of fillers or fibers from the nanometers to millimeters, and in textured to random.

This symposium will be the ideal showcase for the research activities of many groups involved in the development of ceramic/carbon reinforced polymers and composites, and their recycling technology, including but not limited to the areas of ceramics, plastics, their interface chemistry, mechanics, modeling and simulation and engineering application.

 Proposed Session Topics:

• Innovative processing of ceramics and ceramic/carbon reinforced polymers
• Novel process and characterization technology of fiber, filler, matrix, and composites
• Mechanical behavior – fracture, fatigue, deformation, and machine processing of ceramic/carbon reinforced polymers and composites
• Big data, informatics, computing, simulation, modeling, and theoretical approaches in ceramic/carbon reinforced polymers and composites
• Environmental, infrastructure, energy, biological, space, transportation, building, and sport applications
• Innovation for integration of ceramics and composites
• The role of composites in multi-material systems
• Thermoplastics based composites
• Composite Recycling technology

Symposium Organizers:

• Satoshi Kobayashi, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
• Manabu Fukushima, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
• Joung-Man Park, Gyeongsang National University, South Korea
• Toshio Ogasawara, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
• Shinji Ogihara, Tokyo University of Science, Japan
• Tomohiro Yokozeki, The University of Tokyo, Japan
• Takenobu Sakai, Saitama University, Japan
• Masato Sakaguchi, Salesian Polytechnic, Japan

 Points of Contact

• Satoshi Kobayashi: koba@tmu.ac.jp
• Manabu Fukushima: manabu-fukushima@aist.go.jp