The Organizers of this conference would like to thank the following Agencies for additional financial support

Sunday, October 7, 2001

18:00 - 19:30 Conference Registration (Hotel Melia Sevilla)

20:00 - 22:00 Dinner (Hotel Melia Sevilla)

21:00 - 21:15 Welcome
Prof. Antonio R. de Arellano Lopez, Conference Co-Chair
Jules Routbort, UEF Technical Liaison

21:15 - 22:00 Opening Reception

Monday, October 8, 2001

07:00 - 08:00 Breakfast Buffet (Hotel Melia)

09:00 - 13:00

1. SUPERPLASTICITY IN CERAMICS
   Manuel Jiménez-Melendo
   Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Sevilla, SPAIN
   
2. TOPOLOGICAL DYNAMICS OF GRAINS IN SUPERELASTICITY-LIKE DEFORMATION
   Fumihiro Wakai, Yutaka Shinoda
   Tokyo Institute of Technology, Materials and Structures Laboratory, JAPAN
   Arturo Dominguez-Rodriguez
   Universidad de Sevilla, SPAIN
   
3. DIFFUSION CREEP IN OXIDE CERAMICS
   Atul H. Chokshi
   Indian Institute of Science, Metallurgy Department, INDIA
   
4. NON-CONVENTIONAL CREEP IN VITREOUS BONDED SILICON NITRIDE
   Sheldon M. Wiederhorn
   National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
   
5. CREEP BEHAVIOUR OF CERAMIC COMPOSITES
   David S. Wilkinson
   McMaster University, CANADA
   
6. CERAMIC COMPOSITES FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS: CREEP POINT OF VIEW
   Jean-Louis Chermant, Guillaume Boitier, Séverine Darzens, Gaëlle Farizy and Jean Vicens
   LERMAT, URA CNRS, FRANCE
   
7. DISLOCATIONS AND PLASTIC DEFORMATION IN CERAMIC OXIDES
   Terence E. Mitchell
   Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
   

13:30 - 14:30 Lunch (Restaurante Los Monos, Ave. de la Palmera)

15:00 - 18:00

8. DISLOCATION DYNAMICS MODELLING: LIMITATIONS AND PERSPECTIVES
   Diego Gómez-García
   Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Sevilla, SPAIN
   Benoit Devincre, Ladislas Kubin
   Laboratoire d"Etude des Microstructures (CNRS-ONERA), FRANCE
   
9. COOPERATIVE GRAIN-BOUNDARY SLIDING IN THE SUPERPLASTIC DEFORMATION OF POLYCRYSTALLINE CERAMICS
   Hiroyuko Muto, Takatoshi Futami and Motostugu Sakai
   Department of Materials Science, Toyohashi University of Technology, JAPAN
   
10. RHEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF DAMPING IN GLASS-BONDED CERAMICS
    Giuseppe Pezzotti
    Ceramic Physics Laboratory, Department of Materials, Kyoto Institute of Technology, JAPAN
    
11. CREEP CAVITATION MECHANISMS AND GROWTH BEHAVIOR OF BRIDGED CRACKS
    S.B. Biner
    Ames Laboratory, USA
    
12. MECHANICAL SPECTROSCOPY OF CREEP APPEARANCE IN FINE-GRAINED CERAMICS
    Robert Schaller
    Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL - Institut de Génie Atomique, SWITZERLAND
    
13. ANISOTROPY DURING DEFORMATION OF IONIC COMPOUNDS
    Keith J. Bowman
    Purdue University, Materials Engineering, USA
    Keith L. Kruger
    Haynes Intl., USA
    
14. MODELING THE THERMOSTRUCTURAL LIFE OF CERAMIC FIBERS AND COMPOSITES
    James A. DiCarlo
    NASA Glenn Research Center, USA
    
15. MECHANISMS OF HIGH TEMPERATURE FATIGUE IN SILICON NITRIDE
    Yoshiharu Mutoh and Yukio Miyashita
    Nagaoka University of Technology, JAPAN
    Thomas Hansson
    Volvo Aero Corporation
    Shijie Zhu
    The University of Tokyo, JAPAN
    

18:00 - 20:00

• ELASTICITY AND ANELASTICITY OF Si3N4/BN FIBROUS MONOLITHS
  B.I. Smirnov, Yu. A. Burenkov and B.K. Kardashev
  A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, RUSSIA
  D. Singh, K.C. Goretta
  Argonne National Laboratory, USA
  A.R. de Arellano-Lopez
  Universidad de Sevilla, SPAIN
  
• STRENGTHENING AND TOUGHENING MECHANISMS OF CERAMIC-BASED NANOCOMPOSITES
  Hideo Awaji, Eisuke Yagi, Jin-Dan Quan and Seon-Min Choi
  Nagoya Institute of Technology, JAPAN
  
• SURFACE DAMAGE AND CRACK GROWTH IN INDENTED CERAMICS
  Tasuyuki Nezu and Hebron Mwai
  Sun Vertex Co., Ltd., JAPAN
  
• MULTI-CRACK MECHANISMS AND FRACTURE WORK IN CERAMIC/SUPERPLASTIC LAMINATES
  Zhen-Yan Deng, Guo-Jun Zhang, Motohide Ando, and Tarsuki Ohji
  Synergy Ceramics Laboratory, Fine Ceramics Research Association, JAPAN
  
• AN ANALYSIS OF CRACK GROWTH RESISTANCE OF MICROCRACKING BRITTLE SOLIDS AND COMPONENTS
  S.B. Biner
  Ames Laboratory, USA

• CREEP BEHAVIOR OF TWO SINTERED SILICON NITRIDE CERAMICS
  J.J. Meléndez-Martínez, M. Jiménez-Melendo and A. Domínguez-Rodríguez
  Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Sevilla, SPAIN
  G. Wötting
  CFI, Ceramics for Industry, GERMANY
  
• HIGH TEMPERATURE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SILICON NITRIDE CERAMICS DENSIFIED BY GAS PRESSURE SINTERING
  A. Gallardo López and J.J. Meléndez Martínez
  Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Sevilla, SPAIN
  A.J. do Nascimento Dia, J. Duailibi Fh.
  Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia (INT)-RJ, BRAZIL
  M.C. Souza Nóbrega
  Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)- PEMM-COPPE, BRAZIL

• SYNTHESIS OF SILICON CARBONITRIDE NANOPOWDERS BY LASER PYROLISIS, STRUCTURE AND THERMAL STABILITY
  R. Dez, M. Mayne, F. Tenegal, X. Armand and N. Herlin-Boime
  CEA-DRECAM-SPAM/LFP, FRANCE
  
• THE EFFECT OF THE TYPE OF SINTERING ADDITIVES AND SINTERING CONDITIONS ON THE GRAIN MORPHOLOGY OF A-SIALON CERAMICS
  S. Kurama and H. Mandal
  Anadolu University, Iki Eylul Campus Faculty of Engineering, TURKEY
  M. Hermann
  Fraunhoffer Institute
  
• THE EFFECT OF DIFFERENT NUCLEATION TEMPERATURES ON THE GRAIN MORPHOLOGY AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF A-SIALON CERAMICS
  S.R. Kushan and H. Mandal
  Anadolu University, Iki Eylul Campus Faculty of Engineering, TURKEY
  
• METAL-CERAMIC COMPOSITES WITH INTERPENETRATING NETWORKS
  Marco May, Rolf Janßen, Nils Claussen
  Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Advanced Ceramics, GERMANY
  
• EFFECT OF THE VARYING METAL PARTICLE SIZE ON THE CHARACTERIZATION OF ALUMINA/MOLYBDENUM COMPOSITE BY IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY
  Sabina Hussain, O. Sbaizero and I. Barbariol
  Universita di Trieste, ITALY
  
• IN SITU NONOXIDE-BN (NOBN) COMPOSITES: SYNTHESIS, SINTERING, MICROSTRUCTURES AND PROPERTIES
  Guo-Jun Zhang, Motohide Ando
  Synergy Ceramics Laboratory, Fine Ceramics Research Association, JAPAN
  
• EFFECT OF ORGANIC COMPONENTS OF LOW FRICTION / FLEXIBLE MATERIAL
  Yasufumi Shibata, Takenobu Sakai, Shigeru Satake
  Toyota Motor Corporation, JAPAN
  Shingo Katayama and Noriko Yamada
  Nippon Steel Corporation, JAPAN
  
• NEW TYPE CERAMICS TRANSFORMED FROM METAL SURFACE AT HIGH TEMPERATURE WITH REACTIVE PLASMA PROCESSING
  Masanobu Nunogaki
  The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, JAPAN
  
• THE REACTION RATE AT SI₃N₄/STEEL INTERFACE AS A FUNCTION OF COMPOSITION OF SINTERING AIDS
  F.J. Oliveira, R.F. Silva and J.M. Vieira
  Ceramics and Glass Engineering Department, UIMC, University of Aveiro, PORTUGAL
  
• NANO-STRUCTURED METAL-CONTAINING PRECURSORS FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE NON-OXIDE CERAMICS AND CERAMIC FIBERS-SYNTHESES PYROLYSES AND PROPERTIES
  Alexander M. Tsirlin, Galina I. Scherbakova, Elena K. Florina, Nina A. Popova
  State Research Center of Russian Federation State Scientific-Research Institute for Chemistry and Technology of Organoelement Compounds, RUSSIA
  Sergey P. Gubin, N.S. Kurnakov
  Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry Russian Academy of Sciences, RUSSIA
  Rulf Riedel, E. Kroke
  Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, GERMANY
  Marc Steen, Joint Research Center of European Comission, Institute for Advance Materials, NETHERLANDS
  
• FABRICATION AND HIGH TEMPERATURE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF ZIRCONIUM BORIDE CERAMICS
  J.J. Melendéz-Martínez and A. Domínguez-Rodríguez
  Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensanda, Universidad de Sevilla, SPAIN
  Frederic Monteverde, Cesare Melandri and Goffredo de Portu
  CNR - Research Institute for Ceramics Technology (IRTEC), ITALY

20:00 - 22:00 Dinner on your own

Tuesday, October 9, 2001

07:00 - 08:00 Breakfast Buffet (Hotel Melia)

09:00 - 13:00

1. CHARACTERIZATION OF THE HIGH TEMPERATURE DEFORMATION BEHAVIOUR OF NOVEL SILICON NITRIDES AND CARBIDES THROUGH ASSESSMENT OF ELASTIC AND DAMPING PROPERTIES WITH THE IMPULSE EXCITATION TECHNIQUE (IET)
   G. Roebben, R.G. Duan, O. Van der Biest
   Department Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, K.U. Leuven, BELGIUM
   D. Sciti and A. Bellosi
   CNR-IRTEC Research Institute for Ceramics Technology, ITALY
   
2. HIGH TEMPERATURE MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF A GAS PRESSURE SILICON NITRIDE
   J.-L. Besson
   SPCTS, FRANCE
   S. Testu
   Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, SWITZERLAND
   T. Rouxel
   LARMAUR Universite de Rennes, FRANCE
   
3. MECHANICAL RELAXATION IN SILICON NITRIDE
   Tanguy Rouxel
   LARMAUR, FRANCE
   
4. EFFECT OF HEAT TREATMENTS ON MICROSTRUCTURE AND CREEP BEHAVIOR OF SILICON NITRIDE BASED CERAMICS
   Andreas Rendtel
   GKSS Research Center Geesthacht, Institute for Materials Research, GERMANY
   Heinz Hübner
   TU Hamburg-Harburg, Materials Science and Technology Group
   
5. HIGH PERFORMANCE POROUS SILICON NITRIDE
   Tatsuki Ohji, Naoki Kondo
   Synergy Materials Research Center, AIST, JAPAN
   Yoshiaki Inagaki
   Synergy Ceramics Lab., FCRA
   Yasuhiro Shigegaki
   Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industry Corp., JAPAN
   William J. Clegg
   University of Cambridge
   
6. HIGH TEMPERATURE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF ANISOTROPIC SILICON NITRIDE
   Naoki Kondo, Yoshikazu Suzuki and Tatsuki Ohji
   Synergy Materials Center, AIST, JAPAN
   
7. NON-CAVITATIONAL TENSILE CREEP IN SILICON NITRIDE WITH LU-BASED ADDITIVES
   Frantisek Lofaj
   Institute of Materials Research, Slovak Academy of Sciences, SLOVAKIA
   Sheldon M. Wiederhorn, Gabrielle G. Long and Bernard H. Hockey
   NIST, USA
   Peter R. Jemian
   University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/Argonne National Laboratory, USA
   
8. CREEP AND HIGH TEMPERATURE MECHANICAL SPECTROSCOPY IN SILICON NITRIDE
   Sébastien Testu and Robert Schaller
   Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Département de Physique, Institut de Génie Atomique, SWITZERLAND
   

13:30 - 14:30 Lunch (Restaurante Los Monos, Ave. de la Palmera)

14:30 - Board bus to Isla de la Cartuja

15:00 - 18:00

1. EURO-US ROUND TABLE, TOPIC: INTEREST ON STRUCTURAL CERAMICS
   Representatives of European and US Agencies and Professional Societies
   
2. HIGH-TEMPERATURE DEFORMATION OF AMORPHOUS Si-C-N AND Si-B-C-N CERAMICS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
   Andre Zimmermann, Martin Christ, Arndt Bauer and Fritz Aldinger
   Max-Planck-Institut fuer Metallforschung and Institut für Nichtmetallische Anorganische Materialien, Pulvermetalurgisches Laboratorium, GERMANY
3. APPLICATION OF MEMS TO MEASURE FUNDAMENTAL MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYMER DERIVED CERAMICS
   Rishi Raj
   University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Mechanical Engineering, USA
   
4. PROCESSING AND MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF MATERIALS IN THE HAFNIUM-NITROGEN SYSTEM
   Eric J. Wuchina, Mark M. Opeka
   Naval Surface Warfare Center, USA
   Jules L. Routbort and Kenneth C. Goretta
   Argonne National Laboratory, USA
   
5. HIGH-TEMPERATURE DEFORMATION OF BACE0.8Y0.203-Y + 40% Ni
   Jules Routbort, K.C. Goretta, E.T. Park, S.E. Dorris
   Argonne National Laboratory, USA
   A.R. de Arellano-Lopez
   Universidad de Sevilla, SPAIN
   
6. METAL MATRIX REINFORCED MO-NB SILICIDE COMPOSITES
   M.J. Kramer, M. Akinc, A.J. Thom
   Ames Laboratory/ISU, USA
   Joachim H. Schneibel
   Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Metals and Ceramics Division, USA
   Richard N. Wright
   Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, USA
   
7. ELEVATED TEMPERATURE PROPERTIES OF CERAMICS-METAL COMPOSITES MADE BY REACTIVE TECHNIQUES
   Ronald E. Loehmann
   Sandia National Laboratories, USA
   Donald T. Ellerby
   NASA Ames Research Center, USA
   William G. Fahrenholtz
   University of Missouri, USA
   John J. Mecholsky
   University of Florida,USA
   
8. NOVEL SIALON CERAMICS FOR CUTTING TOOL APPLICATIONS
   Hasan Mandal, Ferhat Kara, Servet Turan and Alpagut Kara
   Anadolu University, Department of Ceramic Engineering, TURKEY
   

18:00 - 20:00 "Tapas Tour" Information will be provided upon registration

Wednesday, October 10, 2001

07:00 - 08:00 Breakfast Buffet (Hotel Melia)

09:00 - 13:00

1. MICROSTRUCTURAL DESIGN OF IN-SITU OXIDE COMPOSITES FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS
   Ali Sayir, NASA Glenn Research Center, USA
   
2. STRUCTURE AND MICROSTRUCTURE OF AL₂O₃-ZRO₂(Y₂O₃) MELT GROWTH COMPOSITES
   Victor M. Orera
   Instituto de Ciencias de Materiales de Aragón, Facultad de Ciencias, CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza, SPAIN
   
3. MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF DIRECTIONALLY-SOLIDIFIED AL₂O₃-ZRO₂(Y₂O₃) EUTECTICS
   Javier Llorca, José Ygnacio Pastor and Pedro Poza
   Polytechnic University of Madrid, SPAIN
   
4. CREEP OF NANOCRYSTALLINE ZIRCONIA
   W. Roger Cannon and Michael J. Roddy
   Rutgers University, USA
   
5. OXIDE COMPOSITES FOR THERMAL PROTECTION AND COMBUSTION SYSTEMS.
   D.B. Marshall, J.B. Davis and P. E. D. Morgan
   Rockwell Science Center, USA
   
6. PLASTIC DEFORMATION OF YTTRIA STABILIZED CUBIC AND T' ZIRCONIA SINGLE CRYSTALS
   Ulrich Messerchmidt, Aleksander Tikhonovsky, Dietmar Baither and Martin Bartsch
   Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, GERMANY
   
7. CONSOLIDATION AND PROPERTIES OF OXIDE EUTECTIC COMPOSITE
   Mamoru Omori and Toshinori Isobe
   Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, JAPAN
   
8. CREEP BEHAVIOR OF 3MOL% YTTRIA-STABILIZED TETRAGONAL ZIRCONIA (3Y-TZP)
   Koji Morita, Keijiro Hiraga and Yoshio Sakka
   National Research Institute for Metals, JAPAN
   
9. MICROSTRUCTURAL AND MICROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CREEP DAMAGE IN MULLITE TESTED IN FLEXURE
   Carmen Baudin
   Instituto de Cerámica y Vidrio, CSIC, SPAIN
   Pilar Villar
   Departamento de los Materiales, Ingeniería Metalúrgica y Química Inorgánica, Universidad de Cádiz, SPAIN
   

13:30 - 14:30 Lunch (Restaurante Los Monos, Ave. de la Palmera)

15:00 - 18:00

1. ENVIRONMENT-CONSCIOUS CERAMICS (ECOCERAMICS): A NEW PARADIGM IN CERAMICS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
   M. Singh
   QSS Group, NASA Glenn Research Center, USA
   
2. MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF WOOD FIBER DERIVED SiC-CERAMICS
   Peter Greil, Christian Hoffmann, Cordt Zoolfrank and Heino Sieber
   University of Erlangen, Department of Materials Science, GERMANY
   
3. ULTRA PURE AND HIGH DENSITY SILICON CARBIDE CERAMICS
   Kazunori Kijima
   Kyoto Institute of Technology, JAPAN
   
4. THE ROLE OF DISLOCATIONS IN THE YIELD AND FRACTURE PROPERTIES OF SINGLE CRYSTAL SILICON CARBIDE
   P. Pirouz
   Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, USA
   
5. CREEP MECHANISM AND CREEP DAMAGE IN FIBER REINFORCED CERAMIC COMPOSITES AT ELEVATED TEMPERATURES
   Raj N. Singh
   Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Cincinnati, USA
   
6. MICROSTRUCTURE-PROPERTY CORRELATIONS IN LIQUID-PHASE SINTERED SiC CERAMICS
   Georg Rixecker and Fritz Aldinger
   Max-Planck-Institute fuer Metallforschung, GERMANY
   
7. MICROSTRUCTURAL DESIGN OF SiC-TiC CERAMICS FROM NANOCOMPOSITE PARTICLE
   Masato Uehara, Naoya Enomoto and Junichi Hojo
   Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University, JAPAN
   Kohzoh Shidao and Hirofumi Ogata
   Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, JAPAN
   
8. TAILORING THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SILICON CARBIDE CERAMICS BY MODIFICATION OF THE INTERGRANULAR-PHASE CHEMISTRY AND MICROSTRUCTURE
   You Zhou, Kiyoshi Hirao, Yukihiko Yamauchi and Shuzo Kanzaki
   National Industrial Research Institute of Nagoya, JAPAN
   

18:00 20:00

• PROCESSING-DEPENDENT MICROSTRUCTURAL FACTORS CONTROLLING CAVITY DAMAGE ACCUMULATION AND TENSILE PROPERTIES IN SUPERPLASTIC OXIDES
  Keijiro Hiraga, Tohru S. Suzuki, Tetsuo Uchikoshi, Kiyoshi Ozawa and Yoshio Sakka
  National Research Institute for Metals, JAPAN
  
• MICROSTRUCTURE AND HIGH TEMPERATURE BEHAVIOUR OF A MULLITE-ALUMINA FIBRE
  Marie-Helene Berger, Florence Deleglise and Anthony R. Bunsell
  Ecole des Mines de Paris, Centre des Materiaux, FRANCE
  
• SUPERPLASTIC CHARACTERISTICS IN AL₂O₃-ZRO₂-SPINEL CERAMIC COMPOSITES
  B.-N. Kim, K. Morita, H. Hiraga and Y. Sakka
  National Research Institute for Metals, JAPAN
  
• NANOSTRUCTURED BULK CERAMICS BY RAPID SOLIDIFICATION FROM EUTECTIC MELTS
  Jose M. Calderon-Moreno, and Masahiro Yoshimura
  Tokyo Institute of Technology, JAPAN
  
• THERMAL DURABILITY AND LOW THERMAL EXPANSION BEHAVIOR OF AL₂TiO₅-ZRTiO₄ CERAMICS BETWEEN 750-1400^oC
  IkJin Kim, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Hanseo University, KOREA
  Guozhong Cao
  Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, USA
  
• FABRICATION AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF NANOCRYSTALLINE ZIRCONIA WITH LOW YTTRIA CONTENT
  A. Bravo-León
  Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Sevilla, SPAIN
  M.J. Mayo
  Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
  
• HIGH TEMPERATURE STRESS RELAXATION IN Ti-AND Cu-DOPED REACTION BONDED AL2O3
  A. Morales-Rodriguez, A. Bravo-León, M. Jímenez-Melendo and A. Domínguez-Rodríguez
  Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Sevilla, SPAIN
  
• COLLOIDAL PROCESSING OF LAMINATED CERAMICS WITH HIGH RESIDUAL STRESSES INDUCED BY ZIRCONIA PHASE TRANSFORMATION
  A.J. Sánchez-Herencia, R. Moreno
  Instituto de Cerámica y Vidrio, SPAIN
  M. Rao, M. Potin and F.F. Lange
  Materials Department, University of California, USA
  
• HIGH-TEMPERATURE PLASTIC ANISOTROPY OF YTZ SINGLE CRYSTALS
  Antonio Muñoz Bernabé, Diego Gómez-García, Arturo Domínguez-Rodríguez
  Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Sevilla, SPAIN
  Fuhimiro Wakai
  Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, JAPAN
• STRUCTURAL DETERMINATION OF YTTRIUM GARNETS BY X-RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION
  Luis María González Méndez, Francisco Luis Cumbrera Hernández, Maria Consuelo García Cuesta and Angel Luis Ortiz Seco
  Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Extremadura, SPAIN
  
• MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF YTZP NANOCRYSTALLINE CERAMICS IN FUNCTION OF THE GLASSY PHASE CONTENT
  José Antonio Flores Vázquez, Diego Gómez-García, Antonio Muñoz-Bernabé, and Arturo Domínguez-Rodríguez
  Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Sevilla, SPAIN
  
• FIBRES AND PLATES OF MELT GROWN AL₂O₃-ZR0₂(Y₂O₃) EUTECTICS WITH INTERPENETRATING MICROSTRUCTURE: PHASE AND RESIDUAL STRESSES DISTRIBUTION
  N.R. Harlan, A. Larrea, R.I. Merino, G.F. de la Fuente, J.I. Peña, and V.M. Oera
  Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragón, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Zaragoza, SPAIN
  
• FRACTURE BEHAVIOR OF DIRECTIONALLY-SOLIDIFIED AL₂O₃/YAG EUTECTIC OXIDE
  Pedro Poza, José Ygnacio Pastor, Javier Llorca
  Department of Materials Science, Polytechnic University of Madrid, SPAIN
  Yoshiharu Waku
  Japan Ultra-High Temperature Materials Research Institute, JAPAN
  
• ALUMINA/YAG NANOCOMPOSITES
  Martin Schehl, Ramón Torrecillas and Hernan Alvarado
  Instituto Nacional del Carbon, SPAIN
  
• SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERISATION AND APPLICATION OF CERAMIC ION-CONDUCTING MEMBRANES FOR HIGH-TEMPERATURE GAS SENSORS
  Jennifer Elizabeth Hayes and Girish Kale
  University of Leeds, School of Process, Environmental and Materials Engineering, UNITED KINGDOM
  
• PLASTICITY OF NANOCRYSTALLINE YTTRIA-STABILIZED TETRAGONAL ZIRCONIA POLYCRYSTALS
  Felipe Gutierrez-Mora
  Argonne National Laboratory, USA
  A. Dominguez-Rodriquez and M. Jimenez-Melendo
  Departamento de Fisica de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Sevilla, SPAIN
  
• FAST FRACTURE STRENGTH DYNAMIC FATIGUE, AND FRACTURE TOUGHNESS PROPERTIES OF ZIRCONIA BASED CERAMICS AS FUNCTIONS OF TEMPERATURE
  Mark J. Andrews
  Caterpillar Technical Services Division, Caterpillar, Inc., USA
  Mattison K. Ferber
  Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

• INTERGRANULAR PHASE CHARACTERIZATION OF IN-SITU REINFORCED SiC
  Célio A. Costa
  Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Centro de Tecnologia, BRAZIL
  Ângela Gallardo López
  Universidad de Sevilla, SPAIN
  
• MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF BIOMORPHOUS SiC-CERAMICS
  Evelina Vogli, Heino Sieber, Peter Greil
  University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Department of Materials Science (III) Glass and Ceramics, GERMANY
  Nadejda Popovska, Helmut Gerhard and Gerhard Emig
  University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Department of Technical Chemistry (I) Reaction Techniques, GERMANY
  
• BIOMORPHOUS SiC-CERAMIC PREPARED BY Si-GAS PHASE INFILTRATION OF WOOD
  Evelina Vogli, Heino Sieber and Peter Greil
  University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Department of Materials Science (III) Glass and Ceramics, GERMANY
  
• SILICON CARBIDE CERAMICS DERIVED FROM GERMANIUM-DOPED ORGANOSILICON POLYMERS
  Baklanova Natalia Ivanovna
  Institute of Solid State Chemistry and Mechanochemistry, RUSSIA
  
• JOINING OF BIOMORPHIC SILICON CARBIDE CERAMICS
  A. Muñoz, J. Martínez Fernández
  Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Sevilla, SPAIN
  M. Singh
  QSS Group, NASA Glenn Research Center, USA
  
• BIOMORPHIC SILICON CARBIDE-BASED CERAMICS: MICROSTRUCTURE AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
  F.M. Varela-Feria, S. López-Pombero, J. Martínez Fernández and A.R. de Arellano López
  Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Sevilla, SPAIN
  M. Singh
  QSS Group, NASA Glenn Research Center, USA
  
• X-RAY LINE-BROADENING STUDY OF LIQUID-PHASE-SINTERED SILICON CARBIDE
  Florentino Sánchez-Bajo, Angel L. Ortiz, Francisco L. Cumbrera and Fernando Guiberteau
  Departamento de Electrónica e Ingeniería Electromecánica, Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales, Universidad de Extremadura, SPAIN
  
• DETERMINATION OF THE ELASTIC COEFFICIENTS OF A C/C-SIC LONG FIBRE REINFORCED CERAMIC COMPOSITE FOR DESIGN PURPOSE
  Martino Labanti, ENEA CRF, ITALY
  
• THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF LIQUID-PHASE-SINTERED SILICON CARBIDE
  P. Miranzo, A. de Pablos, M.I. Osendi
  Instituto de Cerámica y Vidrio, CSIC, SPAIN
  A.L. Ortiz
  Universidad de Extremadura, SPAIN
  N.P. Padture
  University of Connecticut, USA
  
• HIGH TEMPERATURE RELAXATION BEHAVIOR OF SiC BASED FIBER PREFORMS
  Jon Goldby
  NASA Glenn Research Center, USA
  

• STABILITY OF SILICON OXYNITRIDE IN SILICON NITRIDE BASED CERAMICS AT HIGH TEMPERATURE
  Ren-Guan Duan, G. Roebben, J. Vleugels and O. Van der Biest
  Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BELGIUM

20:00 - 22:00 Dinner on your own

Thursday, October 11, 2001

07:00 - 08:00 Breakfast Buffet (Hotel Melia Sevilla)

09:00 - 13:00

1. HIGH-TEMPERATURE PASSIVE OXIDATION AND BUBBLE FORMATION OF CVD SiC IN O₂ AND CO₂ ATMOSPHERES
   Takashi Goto and Hisashi Homma
   Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, JAPAN
   
2. CORROSION OF SILICON NITRIDE MATERIALS IN GAS TURBINE ENVIRONMENT
   Hagen Klemm
   FhG IKTS, Dresden, GERMANY
   Christine Taut
   Siemens PG Mülheim
   
3. INTERMEDIATE TEMPERATURE STRENGTH DEGRADATION IN SiC/SiC COMPOSITES
   Gregory N. Morscher
   Ohio Institute/NASA Glenn Research Center, USA
   
4. ACCELERATED OXIDATION OF SiC CMC'S BY WATER VAPOR AND PROTECTION VIA ENVIRONMENTAL BARRIER COATING APPROACH
   Harry E. Eaton and Gary D. Lindsey
   United Technologies Research Center, USA
   
5. THERMAL PROTECTION MATERIALS FOR REENTRY AND PLANETARY APPLICATIONS
   Sylvia M. Johnson
   NASA Ames Research Center, USA
   
6. MECHANICAL RELIABILITY OF SILICON NITRIDES AFTER LONG-TERM EXPOSURE TO A SIMULATED COMBUSTOR ENVIRONMENT
   H.T. Lin and M.K. Ferber
   Oak Ridge National Laboraty, Metals and Ceramics Division, USA
7. EVALUATION OF ULTRA HIGH TEMPERATURE CERAMICS
   Stanley R. Levine, Elizabeth J. Opila, Michael C. Halbig, James D. Kiser, Mrityunjay Singh and Jonathan A. Salem
   NASA Glenn Research Center, USA
   

13:30 - 14:30 Lunch (Restaurante Los Monos, Ave. de la Palmera)

15:00 - 18:00

8. INFLUENCE OF LONG-TERM OXIDATION ON CREEP AND SUBCRITICAL CRACK GROWTH OF ADVANCED SILICON NITRIDE MATERIALS AT ELEVATED TEMPERATURES
   Hagen Klemm, Thomas Reich
   FhG IKTS Dresden, GERMANY
   
9. THE EVALUATION OF CFCC LINERS WITH ENVIRONMENTAL BARRIER COATINGS AFTER FIELD TESTING IN A GAS TURBINE
   Josh Kimmel, Narenbernath Miriyala
   Solar Turbines, Inc., USA
   Karren More
   Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
   Harry Easton and Gary Lindsey
   United Technologies Research Center
   
10. STRENGTH DEGRADATION MECHANISM FOR SiC/SiC COMPOSITES HEAT TREATED IN ARGON ENVIRONMENT
    Ramakrishna T. Bhatt
    Vehicle Propulsion Directorate, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, USA
    Yuan L. Chen and Terry R. McCue
    Dynacs Engineering Corporation, Inc.
    
11. REFRACTORY CARBIDES AND OXIDES INTERFACIALCOATINGS FOR NON-OXIDE CERAMIC COMPOSITES
    Baklanova Natalia Ivanovna, Lyarkhov Nikolai Zakharovich
    Institute of Solid State Chemistry and Mechanochemistry, RUSSIA
    
12. ON THE EXPERIMENTAL CORRELATION BETWEEN THE PROPERTIES OF YTTRIA PARTIALLY STABILIZED ZIRCONIA COATINGS AND THE SPRAY PARAMETERS
    Andrea Scrivani
    Dipartimento de Ingegneria Industriale, Università di Parma, ITALY
    Ugo Bardi, Filippo Niccolai
    Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Firenze, ITALY
    Gabriele Rizzi
    Turbocoating SPA, ITALY
    Francesco Bechis
    Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica, Politecnico di Torino, ITALY
    
13. NON-DESTRUCTIVE CONTROL OF MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF THIN CERAMIC COATINGS
    Sergey M. Aizikovich and Leonid I. Krenev
    Rostov State University, RUSSIA
    Torsten Staedler
    Fraunhofer Institut
    

19:00 - 20:00 Formal Closure (Paraninfo Universidad de Sevilla)

20:00 - 22:00 Banquet (Hotel Melia Sevilla)

22:15 Board bus for Flamenco Show

22:00 Flamenco Show (return by bus to hotel at conclusion of show)

Friday, October 12, 2001

07:00 - 08:00 Breakfast Buffet (Hotel Melia Sevilla)

09:00 - 13:00 Visit to Carmona
LUNCH BOXES WILL BE PROVIDED

13:30 Conference Adjournment

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