Manufacturer: Institutes

IAPK/DE, the new network partner of CERAMIC APPLICATIONS, is also in process to set-up a permanent exhibition for all partners at the institute in Aachen/DE to promote technical ceramic components for their wide range of application.

FGK (Forschungsinstitut für Anorganische Werkstoffe – Glas/Keramik – GmbH/DE), the new network partner of CERAMIC APPLICATIONS, is also in process to set-up a permanent exhibition for all partners at the institute in Höhr-Grenzhausen/DE to promote technical ceramic components for their wide range of applications.

Costs can be decreased by using a ceramic oriented design and by selection of the right manufacturing method. The process chain ends with a proper joining of the ceramic components. Joining of materials gives additional freedoms to the designer to reduce the complexity and size of the ceramic component resulting in higher strength (size effect) … Read more

In the third chapter on IDC the methods of reliability analysis are addressed. Compared to ductile materials the need of a radically different design of brittle ceramics based on a probabilistic strength calculation arises due to different properties and failure mechanisms. Crucial for the strength of brittle materials under external load are size, shape, density … Read more

Conventional shaping of glass components involves a glass melt. The glassmaker is familiar with technologies like drawing, blowing, pressing, floating, casting, and rolling of molten glass. Such shaping techniques are limited with respect to the geometric complexity of the desired components. For processing of sharp edges the glass components need additional finishing steps. Also shaping … Read more

In the second chapter of the series on ICD the main advanced ceramic materials such as zirconia, alumina, silicon nitride and silicon carbide are presented. Their properties, in particular mechanical properties strongly depend on manufacturing, but also on size and geometry and raw material quality. Therefore data found in literature as well as in suppliers … Read more

Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMC) are extremely valuable for applications with demanding thermal and mechanical requirements. CMC have been developed to achieve a damage tolerant quasi-ductile fracture behavior and to maintain all other advantages of monolithic ceramics at high temperatures.