| AVS 60th International Symposium and Exhibition | |
| Accelerating Materials Discovery for Global Competitiveness Focus Topic | Wednesday Sessions |
| Session MG+EN+MS-WeA |
| Session: | Education for Interactive R&D & Industrial Implementation |
| Presenter: | W. Rossner, Siemens AG, Germany |
| Authors: | W. Rossner, Siemens AG, Germany S. Lampenscherf, Siemens AG, Germany |
| Correspondent: | Click to Email |
Ceramics play an important role in system engineering for demanding industrial applications because they provide functionality of key components that are critical for overall system performance and operational benefit. The continuous development of high performance ceramics over the last decades was aiming mainly towards ‘better’ properties and ‘deeper’ understanding of material behaviour.
For today’s applications in areas such as power engineering, medicine, automotive, aircraft and high-end electronics the time-to-market aspect is an important success factor. Product cycles become shorter while R&D cycles especially including materials development are not able to keep up with such pace. The complex relationship between ceramic performance and processing plays a special role for accelerating the R&D process. An additional time-consuming factor is the need for extensive qualification and testing of high-performance ceramics to guarantee functionality and reliability under desired operation conditions.
Based on the very much improved understanding of the dependencies of processing, performance and application as well as the availability of advanced computational methods and tools materials engineering can be a vital part to overcome today’s limitations for accelerating materials development and product implementation.
In the talk we discuss these aspects in the context of current industrial examples for next generation high performance ceramics.