Advanced Processing and Manufacturing Technologies for Structural and Multifunctional Materials V, Volume 32, Issue 8

This book is a collection of papers from The American Ceramic Society's 35th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, held in Daytona Beach, Florida, January 23-28, 2011. This issue includes papers presented in the 5th International Symposium on Advanced Processing and Manufacturing Technologies for Structural and Multifunctional Materials and Systems on topics such as Design-Oriented Manufacturing and Novel Forming and Sintering. Papers from a special session held in honor of Katsutoshi Komeya of Yokohama National University, Japan are also included.

Table of Contents:
Preface ix Introduction xi Seeds Innovation and Bearing Applications of Silicon Nitride Ceramics 1 Katsutoshi Komeya Comparison of Microwave and Conventionally Sintered Yttria Doped Zirconia Ceramics and Hydroxyapatite-Zirconia Nanocomposites 17 Mark R. Towler, Stuart Hampshire, Colin J. Reidy, Declan J. Curran, and Thomas J. Fleming Recent Developments in High Thermal Conductivity Silicon Nitride Ceramics 27 You Zhou, Kiyoshi Hirao, Hideki Hyuga, and Dai Kusano Microstructure Maps for Unidirectional Freezing of Particle Suspensions 35 Rainer Oberacker, Thomas Waschkies, and Michael J. Hoffmann Interactions of Si3N4-Based Ceramics in Water Environment Under Sub-Critical Conditions 45 Pavol Sajgalik, Dagmar Galuskovä, Miroslav Hnatko, and Dusan Galusek Smart Recycling of Composite Materials 59 Makio Naito, Hiroya Abe and Akira Kondo, Masashi Miura and Norifumi Isu, and Takahiro Ohmura High Thermal Conductivity and High Strength Sintered Reaction - Bonded Silicon Nitride Ceramics Fabricated by Using Low Grade Si Powder 67 Dai Kusano, Shigeru Adachi, Gen Tanabe, Hideki Hyuga, You Zhou, and Kiyoshi Hirao Electrical Conductive CNT-Dispersed Si3N4 Ceramics with Double Percolation Structure 77 Sara Yoshio, Junichi Tatami, Toru Wakihara, Tomohiro Yamakawa, Katsutoshi Komeya, and Takeshi Meguro Fabrication of CNT-Dispersed Si3N4 Ceramics by Mechanical Dry Mixing Technique 83 Atsushi Hashimoto, Sara Yoshio, Junichi Tatami, Hiromi Nakano, Toru Wakihara, Katsutoshi Komeya, and Takeshi Meguro Joining of Silicon Nitride Long Pipe by Local Heating 89 Mikinori Hotta, Naoki Kondo, and Hideki Kita Joining of Silicon Nitride with Pyrex Glass by Microwave Local Heating 93 Naoki Kondo, Hideki Hyuga, Mikinori Hotta, Hideki Kita, and Kiyoshi Hirao Mechanical Properties of Chemical Bonded Phosphate Ceramics with Fly Ash as Filler 97 H. A. Colorado, C. Daniel, C. Hiel, H. T. Hahn, and J. M. Yang Ceramics Micro Processing of Photonic Crystals: Geometrical Patterning of Tiania Dispersed Polymer for Terahertz Wave Control 109 Soshu Kirihara, Satoko Tasaki, Toshiki Niki, and Noritoshi Ohta Intergranular Properties and Structural Fractal Analysis of BaTiO3-Ceramics Doped by Rare Earth Additives 121 V. V. Mitic, V. Pavlovic, V. Paunovic, J. Purenovic, Lj. Kocic, S. Jankovic, I. Antolovic, and D. Rancic Development of Numerical Method for Evaluating Microstructural Fracture in Smart Materials 133 Hisashi Serizawa, Tsuyoshi Hajima, Seigo Tomiyama, and Hidekazu Murakawa Fabrication of Ceramic Dental Crowns by Using Stereolithography and Powder Sintering Process 141 Satoko Tasaki, Soshu Kirihara, and Taiji Soumura Large-Sized Structural Ceramic Manufacturing by the Shaping of Thixotropic Slurries 147 Eugene Medvedovski Oriented Alumina Ceramics Prepared from Colloidal Processing in Magnetic Field 159 Satoshi Tanaka, Atsushi Makiya, and Keizo Uematsu Densification Mechanisms of Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia Based Amorphous Powders by Electric Current Assisted Sintering Process 165 Tatsuo Kumagai and Kazuhiro Hongo Microstructure Control of Si3N4 Ceramics Using Nanocomposite Particles Prepared by Dry Mechanical Treatment 177 Junichi Tatami, Makoto Noguchi, Hiromi Nakano, Toru Wakihara, Katsutoshi Komeya, and Takeshi Meguro Author Index 183