(Processing, testing and evaluation of advanced materials)
The traveler attended the First Japan International SAMPE Symposium and Exhibition'' to present the paper Empirical and Analytical Determination of the Fracture Resistance of a TiB{sub 2} Particle/SiC Matrix Composite.'' Key aspects of the conference were on the processing, fabrication, and applications of advanced materials, including high-temperature structural ceramics. Visits with researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo were quite profitable since valuable information and insights were gained in the fabrication of carbon filament composites, mechanical testing methods for brittle materials, and the modeling of fracture mechanisms. Valuable tours were taken at several important Japanese government-affiliated research centers, which included Toyohashi University of Technology in Toyohashi, the Government Industrial Research Institute in Nagoya, and the Japan Fine Ceramics Center also in Nagoya. These visits revealed the advanced state of tensile testing structural ceramics at elevated temperatures as it now stands in Japan. The committed industrial approach to testing, evaluation, and applications of structural ceramics was revealed at the Kyocera Central Research Laboratory in Kokubu during a very open two-day visit.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- DOE/CE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-84OR21400
- OSTI ID:
- 5146983
- Report Number(s):
- ORNL/FTR-3509; ON: DE90004757
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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