United States Advanced Ceramics

Advanced Ceramics Technology Roadmap—Charting Our Course, December 2000. Sponsored by United States Advanced Ceramic Association and the U.S. Department of Energy. Available on the web at www. ceramics.org/cic/marketresouices.asp. www.kitco.com... 

According to a joint study conducted by VAMAS (Versailles Project on Advanced Materials and Standards Early and Rook, 2004), the ASTM Committee C-28 on Advanced Ceramics, and the USACA (United States Advanced Ceramics Association) the term advanced ceramics (in Japan fine ceramics) refers to ceramic materials that are ... 

J. Morrison, Siemens Westinghouse Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Program, United States Advanced Ceramics Association Annual Meeting, College Park, USA, 1 November 2001. 

It is stated that production figures should be similar for 2000 with a slight increase possible. The principal producers include Advanced Ceramics Corp. (formerly Union Carbide/Praxair Advanced Ceramics) and Carborundum Co. in the United States Boride Ceramics Composites Ltd. in the United Kingdom ... 

Ceramics. Calcined aluminas are used in both electronic and stmctural ceramics (see Advanced ceramics). Electronic appHcations are dominant in the United States and Japan whereas mechanical appHcations are predominant in Europe (1). Specialty electronic integrated circuit packages generally use the low soda and thermally reactive aluminas. 

Steam-heated pressure heads and extruder barrels had been known in the United States since the 1890s in context with stiff extrusion. After 1950, with the increasing importance of advanced ceramics and the use of nonplastic materials or bodies which were difficult to extrude and which had to be plastified with the aid of suitable bonding agents, there was also a... 

Because some mechanical properties depend on how the material was tested, it is important and necessary to establish specified test methods. Standard test methods have been adopted for ceramics. In the United States ASTM International (originally the American Society for Testing and Materials, ASTM) is the primary organization developing standards for materials testing. ASTM Committee C-28 on Advanced Ceramics has completed several standards and ones related to mechanical properties and testing are listed in Table 16.1. Specialized subcommittees work on specific areas within the field of advanced ceramics. Coimnittee C28.01 is involved with standards related to mechanical properties and performance of monolithic ceramics. Committee C28.02 deals with reliability issues. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has established several free databases that list mechanical properties of ceramics. 

Producing powders of a consistent quality and composition is an important industry. In the United States the total market for powders of advanced ceramics (e.g., electronic and structural ceramics) alone is around I billion per year. 

The purpose of this task Is to organize, assist, and facilitate International research cooperation on the characterization of advanced structural ceramic materials. A major objective of this research is the evolution of measurement standards. This task, which Is managed In the United States by ORNL, now includes a formal lEA Annex agreement identified as Annex II between the United States, the Federal Republic of Germany,... 

The major producers of titanium diboride are Advanced Refractory Technologies, Advanced Ceramics Corp., and Cerac in the United States, H.C. Starck and Electroschmeltzwerk Kempten in Germany, Denka in Japan, and Borides Ceramics and Composites in the UK. 

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