About this Symposium

The purpose of this symposium is to provide an international forum to foster the discussion of the recent advances in manufacturing and processing of advanced ceramics. This symposium seeks technical presentations related to experimental and modeling studies of various processes related to the synthesis, sintering, casting, additive manufacturing, machining, welding, and surface engineering of ceramic materials.

The symposium will encompass, but not limited to, the following themes:
• Synthesis of ceramic powders, such as sol-gel, molten salt, hydrothermal synthesis;
• Preparation of ceramic powders, such as mixing, milling, and consolidation;
• Sintering of ceramics, including spark plasma sintering, microwave sintering, flash sintering, cold sintering, laser sintering, etc.;
• Welding and joining methods for ceramics;
• Machining of ceramics, such as laser drilling and cutting, etc.;
• Surface engineering of ceramics, including coating, shot peening, laser peening, etc.;
• Multiscale models and/or in-situ experimental methods to understand the processing mechanisms in ceramics;
• Emerging technologies for additive manufacturing of ceramics, such as selective laser melting/sintering, powder bed fusion, binder jetting, and digital light processing.