The American Ceramic Society Bulletin
Emerging Ceramics & Glass Technology

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November 2004 - Volume 83, No. 11

 

Advanced Ceramics

Determining Grain Size in Ceramics
Tadashi Hotta
Japan Fine Ceramics Center, Nagoya, Japan
Junichi Tatami
Graduate School of Environment & Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan
Hidehiko Tanaka
National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan
Nobuhiro Shinohara
Research Center, Asahi Glass Co. Ltd., Yokahama, Japan
Hideyuki Emoto
Center Research Institute, Denki Kagaku Kougyo Co. Ltd., Machida, Japan
Mitsuru Hattori
Corporate Technical Center, NGK Insulators Ltd., Nagoya, Japan
Yukio Kishi
Research & Development, Nihon Ceratec Co. Ltd., Sendai, Japan
Hiroya Abe and Makio Naito
Joining & Welding Research Institute, Osaka University, Ibaraki, Japan
Keizo Uematsu
Dept. of Chemistry, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Japan

A round-robin test that included nine participants was conducted to determine the reproducibility and consistency of grain-size measurements using two standard test methods. View Article




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Construction Ceramics

Using Mixture Design to Optimize the Amount of Deflocculant in Triaxial Ceramic Suspensions
C.M. Gomes, A. De Noni Jr., J.P. Reis, A.P.N. Oliveira and D. Hotza
Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, S.C., Brazil

Design of experiments and mixture design are used to study the influence of triaxial compositions on optimum deflocculant concentration. View Article

Glass & Optical Materials

Glass—An Environmental Protector
James C. Marra and Carol M. Jantzen
Savannah River National Lab, Westinghouse Savannah River Co., Aiken, S.C.

The ability to accommodate an array of chemical elements within the structure of glass has facilitated its use as a medium for the stabilization and direct land disposal or reuse of many hazardous waste substances. View Article

Bioremediation via Glass-Ceramic Materials
Ana M. García, Diego A. Moreno and Carlos Ranninger
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid,
Dept. de Ingeniería y Ciencia de los Materiales,
Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales, Madrid, Spain

The heavy metals cadmium and lead were removed from a wastewater using a bioremediation process that consisted of a biofilm on a glass-ceramic material. View Article

Refractory Ceramics

Natural Fibers as Drying Additives for Refractory Castables
R. Salomão, C.S. Isaac and V.C. Pandolfelli
Materials Engineering Dept., Federal University of São Carlos, São Carlos, S.P., Brazil

The low cost and superior performance of natural fibers as drying additives make them a promising substitute for synthetic fibers. View Article


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