SYMPOSIUM 1: Mechanical Behavior and Performance of Advanced Ceramics & Composites

Advanced structural ceramics, cermets and ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) are enabling materials for applications in various industries such as energy generation and storage (e.g. concentrated solar power, nuclear, combustion, batteries), extreme environment, space, transportation, medicine, microelectronics, and optical systems. High mechanical reliability is a key issue for their ultimate use in short- to very long-term applications. Identification and quantification of failure mechanisms such as fracture, creep, fatigue and/or irreversible deformation are necessary, and correlation with structure, processing, and exposure to severe service conditions is essential. Extreme environments and challenging applications have necessitated new approaches for sustainable manufacturing and characterization of ceramic materials. The development of novel methods to advance and accelerate computationally driven materials characterization and validate structure/property relationship and multiscale models is needed to improve predictions of material behavior, lower costs, consider sustainability and perform life cycle assessment. This symposium solicits abstracts related to a range of topics ranging from the mechanical behavior of ceramics and composites to their correlations with processing, component performance and reliability.  

Proposed Session Topics 

• Mechanical characterization of ceramics and composites, techniques & equipment 

• Small-scale testing and in-situ characterization using electrons, photons & neutrons 

• Fracture mechanics, failure analysis and fractography 

• Environmental effects, thermo-mechanical creep, fatigue performance and tribology 

• Design, reliability and life prediction modeling of materials, devices and components  

• Novel computational approaches to enhance performance and characterization 

• Processing – microstructure – mechanical properties correlation 

• Role of fibers, matrices, coatings, and interfaces in mechanical behavior 

• Additively manufactured, functionally graded materials and multilayer ceramic systems 

• Manufacturing and testing of joined and integrated components and structures 

• Ceramics for aerospace and other transport applications 

• Ceramics for energy generation, turbines, and environmental applications 

• Ceramics for concentrated solar-thermal power and industrial process heat 

• Correlation of resource efficient processing of ceramics and CMCs with their performance 

Symposium Organizers 

• Amjad Almansour, NASA Glenn Research Center, USA 

• Dong (Lilly) Liu, University of Oxford, UK 

• Jonathan Salem, NASA Glenn Research Center, USA 

• Monica Ferraris, Politecnico di Torino, Italy 

• Gerard Vignoles, University of Bordeaux, France 

• Dileep Singh, Argonne National Laboratory, USA 

• Dietmar Koch, University of Augsburg, Germany 

• Bob Zhou, GE Aerospace, USA 

• Raul Bermejo, Montanuniversitaet Leoben, Austria 

• Kamala Raghavan, U.S. Department of Energy, USA 

• Stefan Schafföner, University of Bayreuth, Germany 

• Fredric Laurin, Onera, France 

• Koshika Pandey, Politecnico di Torino, Italy 

Points of Contact 

• Amjad Almansour; amjad.s.almansour@nasa.gov 

• Dong (Lilly) Liu; dong.liu@eng.ox.ac.uk 

• Jonathan Salem; jonathan.a.salem@nasa.gov 

• Monica Ferraris; monica.ferraris@polito.it 

• Gerard Vignoles; vinhola@lcts.u-bordeaux.fr