Symposium U:

Advances in Structural Ceramics – from Processing to Applications

Structural ceramics are wear-resistant, corrosion-resistant, and lightweight materials, and are superior to many materials in regard to stability in high-temperature environments. Because of this combination of properties, structural ceramics have a high potential to resolve a wide number of today’s material challenges in process industries, energy and environment, aerospace and defense, transportation and healthcare applications.

Structural ceramic materials demonstrate enhanced mechanical properties under demanding conditions. For erosive, corrosive, or high-temperature environments, they may be the material of choice. Some advanced ceramics display superior wear resistance, making them ideal for applications such as mineral processing equipment. Others are chemically inert and therefore are used as bone replacements in the highly corrosive environment of the human body. High bond strengths also make ceramics thermochemically inert; this property shows promising areas of application in car engines, aerospace vehicles, and power generators.

Structural ceramics are everywhere not only in traditional applications (whitewares, gypsum plaster, house bricks and tiles, furnace refractories, dental porcelains and hip/knee prostheses) but in hidden applications where their functional characteristics are also important such as in computers, mobile phones, DVDs. Structural ceramics are enabling materials which support many key areas of the economy such as energy generation, environmental clean-up, aerospace and defense, transport and healthcare. Key areas where important developments can be made are power generation, including ceramics for ion conductors in solid oxide fuel cells, and for storage of hydrogen for the projected hydrogen economy. Porous and cellular ceramics need to be developed for filters and membranes to help with environmental remediation of soil, air and water and for storage of carbon captured from burning fossil fuels. Ceramic coatings on turbine blades in aircraft enable them to function at temperatures above the melting point of metal alloys from which they are mostly made. Ceramics are used increasingly for bone and tooth substitution with the ability to allow natural bone growth and with mechanical properties close to natural bone.

Hot topics to be covered by the symposium:

• Challenges in processing of monolithic and composite ceramics
• Advanced ceramics for energy and environment technologies
• Bioceramics, biotechnology, health
• Mobility and transportation
• Innovation in construction materials

Invited speakers/talks (confirmed list):

• Innovative forming
  
  • Günter Motz (Universität Bayreuth, Germany): "Novel porous metal-SiCN ceramics via molecular approach"
  • Nahum Travitzky (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany): "Fabrication of ceramic composites by rapid prototyping techniques"
• Energy and environment
  • Joe da Costa (University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia): "Ceramic membranes in carbon capture processes"
  • Tapio Mäntylä (Tampere University of Technology, Finnland): "Hot gas cleaning by porous ceramics: The effect of microstructures on degradation and durability"
• Construction materials
  • Vicent Cantavella (Universitat Jaume I/ITC, Castellón, Spain): "Bioclimatic building envelope based on an active control system"
  • Michele Dondi (ISTEC/CNR, Faenza, Italy): "Novel performance requirements of buildings: New challenges for ceramic materials"

Scientific committee members:

• Agenor De Noni Jr (Instituto Maximiliano Gaidzinki/IMG, Criciúma, SC, Brazil)
• Ana Segadães (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal)
• Antônio Pedro Novaes de Oliveira (UFSC, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil)
• Anselmo O. Boschi (UFSCar, São Carlos, SP, Brazil)
• Carlos R. Rambo (UFSC, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil)
• Enrico Bernardo (Università di Padova, Italy)
• Enrique Sanchez (Universitat Jaume I/ITC, Castellón, Spain)
• Jairo Escobar (Uniandes, Bogotá, Colombia)
• Márcio C. Fredel (UFSC, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil)
• Mariarosa Raimondo (ISTEC/CNR, Faenza, Italy)
• Marilena V. Folgueras (UDESC, Joinville, SC, Brazil)
• Murilo D. M. Innocentini (UNAERP, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil)
• Peter Greil (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
• Phillipe Gleize (UFSC, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil)
• Saulo R. Bragança (UFRGS, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil)
• Sivaldo L. Correia (UDESC, Joinville, SC, Brazil)
• Wellington L. Repette (UFSC, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil)
• Wilson Acchar (UFRN, Natal, RN, Brazil)

Full papers: Journal of Materials Science (Springer) will publish Special ICAM 2009 issue(s) containing full papers of abstracts presented in this symposium provided such manuscripts are reviewed according to the Journal standards. Authors are invited, not obliged, to submit full length manuscripts.

For instructions, please check Full Papers Publication.

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