Fabrication of brittle materials -- current status

Technical Report · Thu Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1988

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/476636· OSTI ID:476636

Scattergood, R. O.

The research initiatives in the area of precision fabrication will be continued in the upcoming year. Three students, T. Bifano (PhD), P. Blake (PhD) and E. Smith (MS), finished their research programs in the last year. Sections 13 and 14 will summarize the essential results from the work of the Materials Engineering students Blake and Smith. Further details will be presented in forthcoming publications that are now in preparation. The results from Bifano`s thesis have been published in adequate detail and need not be summarized further. Three new students, S. Blackley (MS), H. Paul (PhD), and S. Smith (PhD) have joined the program and will continue the research efforts in precision fabrication. The programs for these students will be outlined in Sections 15 and 16. Because of the success of the earlier work in establishing new process models and experimental techniques for the study of diamond turning and diamond grinding, the new programs will, in part, build upon the earlier work. This is especially true for investigations concerned with brittle materials. The basic understanding of material response of nominally brittle materials during machining or grinding operations remains as a challenge. The precision fabrication of brittle materials will continue as an area of emphasis for the Precision Engineering Center.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States); North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States)
• OSTI ID: 476636
• Report Number(s): LA-SUB--93-81; ON: DE97003578
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
BRITTLENESS
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FABRICATION
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