The Process Engineering Technical Committee of the German Ceramic Society (DKG) is organizing this year’s autumn symposium in Erlangen, Germany, on 3 – 4 December 2013.
EMPA in Dübendorf near Zürich/CH is the interdisciplinary research and services institution for material sciences and technology development within the ETH Domain (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich).
Ceramics Meeting Point and the Fraunhofer AdvanCer Alliance/DE addressed the topic of ceramic design applications at this years InnoMateria trade fair in Cologne/DE.
The Fraunhofer AdvanCer Alliance/DE has organized its own training program for technicians and engineers. The three training blocks held once a year offer an insight into the fields of materials research, ceramic technologies, production engineering, material mechanics, fatigue strength and non-destructive test methods.
Ceramic and metallic green tapes as far as compound tapes of both materials, produced by tape casting, will be evaluated regarding structuring processes by Fraunhofer IKTS/DE and KIT/DE within the research project INKA, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (IGF 17839 BG).
Following the closing, i.e. the transfer of CeramTec’s shares to the new owner, on 31 August 2013, CeramTec is now majority owned by the European private equity firm Cinven.
Electrical heating elements are used in innumerable industrial processes. They are used in plastics technology for heating injection nozzles, hot runners and tools, and in chemicals technology for melting and evaporating samples. In automotive engineering they are used, for instance, for the ignition of fuel mixes (hot surface igniters) and for heating sensors (e.g. !-sensor). … Read more
With the FEA as a part of the integrative design process it is possible to precisely calculate the stresses, which are induced in ceramic components during the assembly or operation. By using postprocessors short-term and also long-term fracture probabilities can be calculated. The precision of the results depends highly on the used input data and … 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
Fuel cells stand for future energy conversion technology with the highest efficiency. Different fuel cell concepts are currently considered for portable, mobile and stationary applications. Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) are very important for distributed stationary power generation.