Advanced Ceramics

Ceria Cutting Tool
A. Senthil Kumar and A. Raja Durai
Dept. of Manufacturing Engineering, College of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, India
T. Sornakumar
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, India

A new ceria ceramic cutting-tool insert has been developed that performs comparable with commercial ZTA when machining gray cast-iron work pieces. View Article

Construction Ceramics

New Marketable Products from Inorganic Residues
F. Andreola, L. Barbieri, A. Corradi and I. Lancellotti
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dei Materiali e dell’Ambiente, Facoltà di Ingegneria, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

Ash from the incineration of municipal solid residues and from thermal power stations appear to be easily transformed to new marketable products, including glasses, glass-ceramics and ceramics. Steel fly ash, however, presents many difficulties for insertion as a fundamental constituent into these products. View Article

Refractory Ceramics

Beach-Sand-Sillimanite-Based Zirconia–Mullite Composites
Manas Kamal Haldar and S.K. Das
Refractories Div.
A.C. Das
General Furnace Div.
Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute, Calcutta, India

Zirconia–mullite composites can be prepared from Indian coastal beach-sand sillimanite, zirconia and alumina, with yttria as an additive. The microstructure of the zirconia–mullite composites is characterized by equiaxed mullite grains and zirconia grainsView Article

Strength of Gelcast Ceramic Foams
F.S. Ortega
Institute of Research & Development, Univap, São José dos Campos, Brazil
J.A. Rodrigues and V.C. Pandolfelli
Materials Engineering Dept., Federal University of São Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil

Bending and uniaxial compressive strengths of alumina ceramic foams produced using suspensions that contained various concentrations of surfactant were evaluated and compared with their relative densities. View Article

Composition Design of Al₂O₃–MgO System Castables
Yang De’an, Zhao Wei, Liang Chong and Shen Jiyao
School of Materials Science & Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China

Three types of Al₂O₃–MgO castables are described and their applications discussed. View Article

UNITECR 2003 Puts Focus on the Environment
Robert W. Crolius
The Refractories Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa.

The eighth biennial meeting of UNITECR, held at Osaka, Japan, provided the opportunity for scientists from around the world to share the latest knowledge about refractories. View Article

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