Engineering ceramics and ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) offer unique combinations of physical and mechanical properties that have the potential to fulfill the demanding material needs in structural and functional applications, such as those in the aerospace, automotive, energy generation, environment, transportation, optical systems, and microelectronics industries. Globally, significant progress has been made in the material development and manufacturing technologies pertaining to these ceramic materials. However, challenges remain with respect to increasing the extent of penetration of these ceramic materials into the industrial marketplace. The successful design and implementation of engineering ceramics and composites into the highly added value applications strongly depends on the consistent development of materials with improved properties and mechanical liability performance, thus providing sound solutions for engineering conditions with special requirements, especially under high temperature and high stress state, and oxidative and corrosive environment. In addition, the development of novel methods to advance computationally driven materials design and validation of modeled structure/property relationships are also critically needed to significantly accelerate ceramic materials development and lower the production costs. The objective of this symposium is, to provide a broader platform to scientists and engineers from around the world to present and discuss their up-to-date advances and developments in the areas of processing, characterization, modeling, and applications of engineering ceramics and CMCs.
Proposed sessions and topics of interest:
- Innovative processing and synthesis methods
- Fibers, preforms, interfaces/interphases and matrices
- Processing-microstructure-mechanical properties correlation
- Novel sintering and microstructure control
- Advanced design, processing, and manufacturing of CMC
- Fracture mechanics of ceramics and composites
- Thermal, electrical, and optical properties
- Environmental effects and thermo-mechanical performance
- Tribological performance of ceramics and composites
- Nondestructive evaluations
- Energy generation and environmental applications
- Design, reliability, and life prediction modeling of devices and components
- Novel computational approaches to enhance materials design, performance, and predictability
- Characterization of damage and failure mechanisms
- Industrial applications and challenges
ORGANIZERS
- Hua-Tay Lin, Guangdong University of Technology/Hunan University of Humanities, Science and Technology, China; huataylin@gdut.edu.cn
- Junichi Tatami, Yokohama National University, Japan; tatami-junichi-xv@ynu.ac.jp
- Young-Wook Kim, University of Seoul, Korea; ywkim@uos.ac.kr
- Michael C. Halbig, NASA Glenn Research Center, USA; michael.c.halbig@nasa.gov
- Salvatore Grasso, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom; s.grasso@qmul.ac.uk
- De-Chang Jia, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
- Gerard L. Vignoles, University of Bordeaux, France
- Kevin Plucknett, Dalhousie University, Canada
- Tatsuki Ohji, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
- Andrew Wereszczak, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
- Yu-Ping Zeng, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, China
- Henry Colorado, University of Antioquia, Columbia
- Young-Jo Park, Korea Institute of Materials Science, Korea
- Gunter Motz, University of Bayreuth, Germany
- Ján Dusza, Institute of Materials Research of SAS, Slovakia
- Zbigniew Pędzich, AGH, University of Krakow, Poland
- Monica Ferraris, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
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