The European Ceramic Society
Laboratory sheet
Austria
Chair of Structural and Functional Ceramics, Department of Materials Science, Montanuniversitaet Leoben
Expertise on processing, sintering, electro-mechanical testing and analysis of ceramics
Director : Univ.-Prof. Dr. Raúl Bermejo
Email : karin.krasser@tugraz.at
Phone : +43 316 873 32331
Address : Franz Josef-Strasse 18, A-8700, Leoben
Website : www.isfk.at
Research topics :
Design and processing of ceramics: design, processing and characterization of layered ceramics, microstructure tailoring (texture), mechanical testing, fracture mechanics.
Dr. Raul BERMEJO
Tel: +43 3842 402 4100
Mechanical Testing of Ceramics and Weibull statistics: strength, fracture toughness, sub-critical crack growth, creep, hardness, development of test procedures for specimens with non-standard shape and components, fractographic and fracture statistical interpretation of measurements.
Dr. Tanja LUBE
Tel: +43 3842 402 4111
Fractography of advanced ceramics and components: identification of fracture initiating defects (specimens, components), microstructural investigations, failure analysis of components
Dr. Walter HARRER
Tel: +43 3842 402 4110
Modelling and characterization of electroceramics: development and application of simulation models to investigate multi-physical effects in ceramic materials (electrical-thermal-mechanical). Experimental methods to characterize properties and behaviour of electroceramic materials and components.
Dr. Peter Supancic
Tel: +43 3842 402 4109
Exceptional facilities :
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Electro-mechanical testing (micro- and macro samples). Thermographic analysis for failure detection. Contact: Josef Kreith: Tel. +43 3842-402 4113, Email: josef.kreith@unileoben.ac.at
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Processing Laboratory (Tape Casting, 3D-Printing through Stereolithography). Contact: Irina Kraleva: Tel. +43 3842-402 4112, Email: irina.kraleva@unileoben.ac.at
Financial support programmes :
- European funding: ERC - Consolidator Grant
- National fundings: FFG
Last news
ACerS is offering travelling grants of 1.500 $ to attend the two 2024 ECerS Summer Schools
The grants can be allowed to undergraduate, graduate, and Ph.D. students from non-European based universities. The 2024 ECerS Summer Schools will be held prior to Electroceramics XIX (Vilnius, Lithuania - School: 17-18 August 2024) and Shaping 9 (Warsaw, Poland - School: 24-25 September 2024)!
2024 ECerS International Ceramist Student Exchange Program – 3rd call!
In the frame of the 2024 ECerS International Student exchange program, ECerS is opening a third call, this time to allow grants to European Students to attend the 2024 Fall meeting of Korean Ceramic Society (COEX) that will be organised by the Korean Ceramic Society in Seoul, Korea, from 16th to 18th October 2024.
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