| Abstract Scope |
Advanced ceramics show significant potential for several industrial applications: however, their reliable and user-friendly joining and integration methods remain a critical challenge. This talk explores several strategies for joining ceramics by using glasses, brazing alloys, adhesives and polymer-derived ceramics. Innovation in processing and characterization of joined components developed at GLANCE-Glasses, Ceramics and Composites research group at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, will be presented and discussed. The combination of advanced design of interfaces and joining materials/technologies, selective matrix removal from the surface, laser structuring and mechanical machining of the ceramic/metal surfaces will be discussed and compared to existing solutions. The work done with the aim of developing reliable and user-friendly international standard tests to measure the shear strength of joined components will also be reviewed. Finally, J-TECH@PoliTO (https://www.j-tech.polito.it/), Advanced Joining Technology research center at Politecnico di Torino, will be described together with collaboration actions and opportunities for common research activity on joining. |