US-Switzerland Cooperative Research: Relationship between the Processing of Ceramics and their Tribological Performance

该奖项支持史蒂文斯研究所的Traugott Fischer教授 技术合作，在材料工程研究与 联邦陶瓷实验室的阿兰·莫塞林教授 瑞士洛桑理工学院。 的目标 他们的合作是为了加强对 某些先进的陶瓷和加工技术， 实现它们。 瑞士集团将准备测试陶瓷以及 定义的处理和属性，并提供给美国。 组作进一步研究。 史蒂文斯的摩擦学研究将 将陶瓷的摩擦磨损与力学性能联系起来， 本服务之目的 这些性质取决于颗粒的大小， 添加剂的性质和加工。 合作 一种有效的安排将两个实验室连接起来， 设备生产，表征和测试的行为， 陶瓷材料 目前，许多国家都在积极开展活动， 开发和应用新型高性能陶瓷。 一些 已经取得了显著的成功，主要是在金属成形方面， 切割行业，但更广泛的应用这些材料， 例如纺织机械和先进的发动机， 结果喜忧参半。 成功的制作和应用 这些材料将遵循我们的进一步发展， 了解它们的性质和加工技术 生产它们。

This award supports Professor Traugott Fischer of Stevens Institute of Technology to collaborate in materials engineering research with Professor Alain Mocellin of the Ceramics Laboratory of the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland. The objective of their collaboration is to enhance understanding of the properties of certain advanced ceramics and of the processing techniques for achieving them. The Swiss group will prepare test ceramics with well defined processing and properties, and provide these to the U.S. group for further study. Tribological research at Stevens will then relate friction and wear of the ceramics to the mechanical properties of the materials. These properties depend on the size of the grains, the nature of the additives and the processing. The collaborative arrangement efficiently links two laboratories with complementary equipment to produce, characterize and test the behavior of novel ceramic materials. There is presently intense activity in many countries with the aim of developing and applying novel high performance ceramics. Some notable successes have been achieved, mainly in the metal forming and cutting industries, but the wider application of these materials, for example in textile machinery and advanced engines, is still meeting with mixed results. Success in the fabrication and application of these materials will follow the further development of our understanding of their properties and of the processing techniques for producing them.