Improved ceramics through new measurements, processing, and standards (2002)

Characterization. Materials Development and Wear Applications of Si3N4 Ceramics (Katsutoshi Komeya). Measuring the Isoelectric Point of Ceramic Powder Suspensions: A Pre-Standardization Study (Vincent A. Hackley, Makio Naito, and Rolf Wasche). Direct-Force Measurement of Nanotube-Attached Colloidal Probe in Liquid Media (Jeong-Min Cho and Wolfgang M. Sigmund). Direct Measurement of Strongly Attractive Particle'Particle Interactions (Kelcey L. Eccleston and Kelly T. Miller). In situ Observation of Rearrangement Mechanisms in Low Volume Fraction 2-D Aggregated Colloids (Sarunya Promkotra and Kelly T. Miller). Optical-Microscopic Observation of the Three-Dimensional Structure of Particles in a Ceramic Slurry (Masayo Oya and Minoru Takahashi). Particle Size Characterization of Highly Concentrated Barium Titanate Slurries (Ultrasonic Attenuation Spectroscopy by Shin-ichi Takeda, Hidehiko Suenaga, and Isao Tari). Particle Size Characterization of Highly Concentrated Alumina Slurries by Ultrasonic Attenuation Spectroscopy (Shin-ichi Takeda, Hiroyuki Harano, and Isao Tari). Analysis of Anionic Polymer Dispersant in Dense Alumina Suspension with Various Additive Content (Using Colloidal Probe AFM by H. Kamiya, J. Yoneyama, Y. Fukuda, H. Abe, and M. Naito). Characterization of Coarse Particles Contained in Fine Powders at Very Low Concentrations (Yong-Ick Cho, Masataro Okumiya, Makio Naito, Torsten Rabe, Rolf Waesche, Roger Morrell, Kevin G. Ewsuk, Vincent Hackley, Stephen Freiman, and Keizo Uematsu). Characterizing Granulated Ceramic Powders for Dry Pressing and Sintering (K.G. Ewsuk, J.G. Arguello, D.N. Bencoe, D.T. Ellerby, S. J. Glass, D. H. Zeuch, and J. Anderson). Evaluation of Green Components by Nondestructive Methods (Torsten Rabe, Rainer Rudert, Jurgen Goebbels, and Karl-Wolfram Harbich). New Method to Observe the Internal Structure of a Green Body Using Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope (Yutaka Saito, Satoshi Tanaka, Nozomu Uchida, and Keizo Uematsu). Elastic, Plastic, and Viscoelastic Contact Problems in Axisymmetric Indentation (M. Sakai and S. Shimizu). Estimation of Short Crack R-curves of Polycrystalline Ceramics by the Surface Crack in Flexure Method (Kouichi Yasuda, Tomitsugu Taguchi, Junichi Tatami, and Yohtaro Matsuo). Effects of Diamond Grit, Machining Direction and Post Machining Treatments on Si3N4 Strength (Biljana Mikijelj and Richard Allor). Estimation of Temperature Dependence of Thermal Shock Resistance by Infrared Radiation Technique (Sawao Honda, Tadahiro Nishikawa, Hideo Awaji, Yoshio Akimune, and Naoto Hirosaki). Processing. Characterization of Translucent Polycrystalline Alumina (PCA) Ceramics (G.C. Wei). Characterization of Sub-Superficial Defects in Translucent Alumina Using a Liquid Immersion Technique in Transmitted Light Microscopy (H. N. Yoshimura, A. C. da Cruz, and H. Goldenstein). Fracture Strength Variability of Silicon Nitride Ceramics made by Powder Compaction (Makio Naito, Hiroya Abe, Tadashi Hotta, Nobuhiro Shinohara, and Keizo Uematsu). Effect of Slurry Flocculation on the Microstructure of Alumina Green Bodies Prepared (Slip Casting by Y. Hotta, H. Abe, M. Naito, K. Kamiya, and K. Uematsu). Effect of the Manufacturing Process on the Properties of Alumina Sintered Ceramics (Yong-Ick Cho, Seung-Jai Kim, Masataro okumiya, Makio Naito, and Keizo Uematsu). Characterization of Cylindric Porous Ceramics Prepared with Centrifugal Molding (T. Nishikawa, S. Honda, and H. Awaji). Preparation of Translucent Aluminum Oxynitride Ceramics and Ar-HIP (A. Uchiyama, N. Hotta, R. Watanabe, and R. Miyamoto). Correlation between Suspension Structure and Rheological Properties of Suspensions of Nanosized Fumed Silica Powders (Jan Tabellion, Rolf Clasen, Jorg Reinshagen, Rainer Oberacker, and Michael J. Hoffmann). Characterization of Nanoparticles During Mg-Al-Spinel-Formation Calculated by MD-Simulations (Wilfried Wunderlich and Minoru Takahashi). Preparation of TiN Powder by Floating-Type Reduction-Nitridation (N. Hotta, K. Nabetani, T. Oshima, and M. Aoki). Reviews of Microwave Processing of Ceramics in Japan (Hideoki Fukushima and Masao Matsui). Microwave Processing of Advanced Ceramics Using 28 GHz Frequency (H. Takizawa, T. Kimura, M. Iwasaki, K. Uheda, and T. Endo). Effect of Microwaves on the Formation of Ce2O(CO3)2 Doped with Nd by Homogeneous Precipitation (Michiyo Kamiya, Ken-ichiro Ogata, Eriko Shimada, and Ysuro Ikuma). Slip Casting and Pressureless Sintering of Boron Carbide (Akio Matsumoto, Akira Kawakami, and Tatsuya Goto).