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.
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 - 09:30 SUPERPLASTICITY IN CERAMICS (Invited)
Manuel Jiménez-Melendo
Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Sevilla, SPAIN

09:30 - 10:00 TOPOLOGICAL DYNAMICS OF GRAINS IN SUPERELASTICITY-LIKE
DEFORMATION (Invited)
Fumihiro Wakai, Yutaka Shinoda
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Materials and Structures Laboratory, JAPAN
Arturo Dominguez-Rodriguez
Universidad de Sevilla, SPAIN

10:00 - 10:30 DIFFUSION CREEP IN OXIDE CERAMICS (Invited)
Atul H. Chokshi
Indian Institute of Science, Metallurgy Department, INDIA

10:30 - 11:00 NON-CONVENTIONAL CREEP IN VITREOUS BONDED SILICON NITRIDE (Invited)
Sheldon M. Wiederhorn
National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:30 - 12:00 CREEP BEHAVIOUR OF CERAMIC COMPOSITES (Invited)
David S. Wilkinson
McMaster University, CANADA

12:00 - 12:30 CERAMIC COMPOSITES FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS: CREEP POINT OF VIEW (Invited)
Jean-Louis Chermant, Guillaume Boitier, Séverine Darzens, Gaëlle Farizy and Jean Vicens
LERMAT, URA CNRS, FRANCE

12:30 - 13:00 DISLOCATIONS AND PLASTIC DEFORMATION IN CERAMIC OXIDES (Invited)
Terence E. Mitchell
Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

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

15:00 - 15:20 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

15:20 -15:40 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

15:40 - 16:00 MECHANISMS OF HIGH TEMPERATURE FATIGUE IN SILICON NITRIDE
Yoshiharu Mutoh and Yukio Miyashita
Nagaoka University of Technology, JAPAN
Thomas Hansson
Volvo Aero Corporation, SWEDEN
Shijie Zhu
The University of Tokyo, JAPAN

16:00 -16:20 CREEP CAVITATION MECHANISMS AND GROWTH BEHAVIOR OF BRIDGED CRACKS
S.B. Biner
Ames Laboratory, USA

16:20 - 16:40 MECHANICAL SPECTROSCOPY OF CREEP APPEARANCE IN FINE-GRAINED CERAMICS
Robert Schaller
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL - Institut de Génie Atomique, SWITZERLAND

16:40 - 17:00 ANISOTROPY DURING DEFORMATION OF IONIC COMPOUNDS
Keith J. Bowman
Purdue University, Materials Engineering, USA
Keith L. Kruger
Haynes Intl., USA

17:30 - Free time

20:00 - Night visit to the Real Alcazar (Royal Palace) de Sevilla

21:00 - Dinner on your own. "Tapas Guide" will be distributed upon registration

Tuesday, October 9, 2001

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

09:00 - 09:30 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 (Invited)
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

09:30 - 10:00 MECHANICAL RELAXATION IN SILICON NITRIDE (Invited)
Tanguy Rouxel
LARMAUR, FRANCE

10:00 - 10:30 HIGH PERFORMANCE POROUS SILICON NITRIDE (Invited)
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, UK

10:30 - 11:00 NON-CAVITATIONAL TENSILE CREEP IN SILICON NITRIDE WITH Lu-BASED ADDITIVES (Invited)
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

11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:30 - 12:00 EFFECT OF HEAT TREATMENTS ON MICROSTRUCTURE AND CREEP BEHAVIOR OF SILICON NITRIDE BASED CERAMICS (Invited)
Andreas Rendtel
GKSS Research Center Geesthacht, Institute for Materials Research, GERMANY
Heinz Hübner
TU Hamburg-Harburg, Materials Science and Technology Group, GERMANY

12:00 - 12:20 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

12:20 - 12:40 HIGH TEMPERATURE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF ANISOTROPIC SILICON NITRIDE
Naoki Kondo, Yoshikazu Suzuki and Tatsuki Ohji
Synergy Materials Center, AIST, JAPAN

12:40 - 13:00 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 - 16:00 ROUND TABLE, TOPIC: INTEREST ON STRUCTURAL CERAMICS
Moderator:
Asuncion Fernández, Director of the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Sevilla
Participants:
Arturo Domínguez Rodríguez,
Representative of the Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva (ANEP) of Spain
Jules Routbort,
US Departament of Energy
Tatsuki Ohji,
Synergy Materials Research Center, AIST, JAPAN
Emilio Criado,
Secretary General, Sociedad Española de Cerámica y Vidrio

16:00 - 16:20 APPLICATION OF MEMS TO MEASURE FUNDAMENTAL MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYMER DERIVED CERAMICS
Rishi Raj
University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Mechanical Engineering, USA

16:20 - 16:40 PROCESSING AND MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF MATERIALS IN THE HAFNIUM-NITROGEN SYSTEM
Eric J. Wuchina, Mark M. Opeka
Naval Surface Warfare Center, USA
Felipe Gutierrez-Mora, Rachel Koritala, Jules L. Routbort and Kenneth C. Goretta
Argonne National Laboratory, USA

16:40 - 17:00 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

17:00 - 17:20 HIGH-TEMPERATURE DEFORMATION OF BaCe_0.8Y_0.20₃-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

17:20 - 17:40 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

17:40 - 18:00 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

19:30 - Guided Visit to the Historical Plaza de Toros (Bullfight Ring) and Museum

21:00 - Dinner on your own. "Tapas Guide" will be distributed upon registration

Wednesday, October 10, 2001

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

09:00 - 09:30 MICROSTRUCTURAL DESIGN OF IN-SITU OXIDE COMPOSITES FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS (Invited)
A.Sayir, S. C. Farmer
NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, OH, USA
J. Martinez-Fernandez
University of Seville, Seville, SPAIN

09:30 - 10:00 STRUCTURE AND MICROSTRUCTURE OF Al₂O₃-ZrO₂(Y₂O₃) MELT GROWTH COMPOSITES (Invited)
Victor M. Orera
Instituto de Ciencias de Materiales de Aragón, Facultad de Ciencias, CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza, SPAIN

10:00 - 10:30 MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF DIRECTIONALLY-SOLIDIFIED Al₂O₃-ZrO₂(Y₂O₃) EUTECTICS (Invited)
Javier Llorca, José Ygnacio Pastor and Pedro Poza
Polytechnic University of Madrid, SPAIN

10:30 - 11:00 CREEP OF NANOCRYSTALLINE ZIRCONIA (Invited)
W. Roger Cannon and Michael J. Roddy
Rutgers University, USA

11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:30 - 12:00 MICROSTRUCTURAL AND MICROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CREEP DAMAGE IN MULLITE TESTED IN FLEXURE (Invited)
Carmen Baudin
Instituto de Cerámica y Vidrio, CSIC, SPAIN
Pilar Villar
Departamento de los Materiales, Ingeniería Metalúrgica y Química Inorgánica, Universidad de Cádiz, SPAIN

12:00 - 12:20 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

12:20 - 12:40 CREEP BEHAVIOR OF 3 mol% YTTRIA-STABILIZED TETRAGONAL ZIRCONIA (3Y-TZP)
Koji Morita, Keijiro Hiraga and Yoshio Sakka
National Research Institute for Metals, JAPAN

12:40 - 13:00 CONSOLIDATION AND PROPERTIES OF OXIDE EUTECTIC COMPOSITE
Mamoru Omori and Toshinori Isobe
Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, JAPAN

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

15:00 - 15:30 ENVIRONMENT-CONSCIOUS CERAMICS (ECOCERAMICS): A NEW PARADIGM IN CERAMICS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
M. Singh (Invited)
QSS Group, NASA Glenn Research Center, USA

15:30 - 16:00 MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF WOOD FIBER DERIVED SiC-CERAMICS (Invited)
Peter Greil, Christian Hoffmann, Cordt Zoolfrank and Heino Sieber
University of Erlangen, Department of Materials Science, GERMANY

16:00 - 16:20 ULTRA PURE AND HIGH DENSITY SILICON CARBIDE CERAMICS
Kazunori Kijima
Kyoto Institute of Technology, JAPAN

16:20 - 16:40 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

16:40 - 17:00 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

17:00 - 17:20 MICROSTRUCTURE-PROPERTY CORRELATIONS IN LIQUID-PHASE SINTERED SiC CERAMICS
Georg Rixecker and Fritz Aldinger
Max-Planck-Institute fuer Metallforschung, GERMANY

17:20 - 17:40 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

17:40 - 18:00 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

18:00 - 21:00 POSTERS SESSION (See Poster List), Hall of the Vicerrectorate for Graduate Studies, Universidad de Sevilla, Mexican Pavilion of Expo'29, Ave. de la Palmera,
Drinks will be available

21:00 - Dinner on your own. "Tapas Guide" will be distributed upon registration

Thursday, October 11, 2001

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

09:00 - 09:30 HIGH-TEMPERATURE PASSIVE OXIDATION AND BUBBLE FORMATION OF CVD SiC IN O₂ AND CO₂ ATMOSPHERES (Invited)
Takashi Goto and Hisashi Homma
Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, JAPAN

09:30 - 10:00 CORROSION OF SILICON NITRIDE MATERIALS IN GAS TURBINE ENVIRONMENT
Hagen Klemm (Invited)
FhG IKTS, Dresden, GERMANY
Christine Taut
Siemens PG Mülheim

10:00 - 10:20 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

10:20 - 10:40 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

10:40 - 11:00 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 Eaton and Gary Lindsey
United Technologies Research Center

11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:30 - 12:00 INTERMEDIATE TEMPERATURE STRENGTH DEGRADATION IN SiC/SiC COMPOSITES (Invited)
Gregory N. Morscher
Ohio Institute/NASA Glenn Research Center, USA

12:00 - 12:20 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.

12:20 - 12:40 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

12:40 - 13:00 REFRACTORY CARBIDES AND OXIDES INTERFACIAL COATINGS FOR NON-OXIDE CERAMIC COMPOSITES
Natalia I. Baklanova, Lyarkhov Nikolai Zakharovich
Institute of Solid State Chemistry and Mechanochemistry, RUSSIA

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

15:00 - 15:30 ACCELERATED OXIDATION OF SiC CMC'S BY WATER VAPOR AND PROTECTION VIA ENVIRONMENTAL BARRIER COATING APPROACH (Invited)
Harry E. Eaton and Gary D. Lindsey
United Technologies Research Center, USA

15:30 - 16:00 THERMAL PROTECTION MATERIALS FOR REENTRY AND PLANETARY APPLICATIONS (Invited)
Sylvia M. Johnson
NASA Ames Research Center, USA

16:00 - 16:30 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

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

20:30 - 22:30 Banquet (Restaurante Los Monos, Ave. de la Palmera)

22:45 Flamenco

Friday, October 12, 2001

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

10:00 - 14:00 Guided Visit to Carmona, Historical Town, 30 km from Seville Buffet Lunch in Carmona

15:00 Conference Adjournment

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• 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
  
• 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
  
• METAL-CERAMIC COMPOSITES WITH INTERPENETRATING NETWORKS
  Marco May, Rolf Janßen, Nils Claussen
  Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Advanced Ceramics, GERMANY
  
• IN SITU NONOXIDE-BN (NOBN) COMPOSITES: SYNTHESIS, SINTERING, MICROSTRUCTURES AND PROPERTIES
  Guo-Jun Zhang, Motohide Ando
  Synergy Ceramics Laboratory, Fine Ceramics Research Association, JAPAN
  Tatsuki Ohji,
  Synergy Materials Research Center, AIST, 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
  
• DEVELOPMENT OF LOW-COST, INTERCONNECTED MATRIX COMPOSITES FOR VALVE SEAT APPLICATION
  M. Pidria and G. Boretto
  Centro Ricerche FIAT, ITALY
  M. E. Poggi, D. Vallauri, I. Amato
  Politecnico di Torino, ITALY
• MICROSTRUCTURE OF AN HOT PRESSED Ti(C,N) BASED CERMET OBTAINED FROM NANOSIZE TIN POWDER CARBURIZED AT HIGH TEMPERATURE
  Frederic Monteverde, Alida Bellosi, Valentina Medri, Research Institute for Ceramic Technologies, ITALY
  

• 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
  
• 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
  
• 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
  Natalia I. Baklanova
  Institute of Solid State Chemistry and Mechanochemistry, RUSSIA
  
• JOINING OF BIOMORPHIC SILICON CARBIDE CERAMICS
  Antonio Muñoz Bernabé, 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
  
• 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
  
• PROCESSING OF WOOD FIBER DERIVED SIC-CERAMICS
  Christiane Hoffmann, Heino Sieber and Peter Greil, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Department of Materials Science, Glass and Ceramics, GERMANY
  

• 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
  
• THERMODYNAMICS OF SILICON-HYDROXIDE FORMATION IN H2O CONTAINING ATMOSPHERES
  E. Copland,
  NASA Glenn Research Center, Environmental Durability Branch, 106-1, USA
  D. Myers
  East Central University, Ada, OK 74820-6899, USA
  E. J. Opila
  Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH 44115, USA
  N. S. Jacobson
  NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH 44135, USA