Session B: High Temperature Interface
Date:   Thursday, September 25, 2003
Time:   9:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Venue: Kurashiki City Art Museum 3F Hall
        Session Chair (B1-4): A.Tomsia, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
9:15 - 9:45 B-1 Control of Wetting and Adhesion in Metal/Ceramic Systems (Invited)
N. Eustathopoulos
 
        LTPCM (UMR 5614 CNRS/INPGrenoble/UJF) ENSEEG, BP.75, 38402 Saint Martin d’Hères - France
 
9:45 - 10:00 B-2 High Temperature Wettability of Alumina Particulate Preforms by Molten Copper
M. Bahraini, L. Weber, J. Narciso*,
A. Mortensen
        Laboratory for Mechanical Metallurgy, Institute of Materials
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), EPFL, CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
* Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Alicante, Spain
10:00 - 10:15 B-3 The Role of Titanium on Wettability and Interfaces in Aluminum/Ceramic Systems
Natalia SOBCZAK
        Foundry Research Institute, Cracow, POLAND
10:15 - 10:30 B-4 Improved Oscillating Drop Method Using Free Oscillation of a Falling Droplet
Taihei MATSUMOTO, Hidetoshi FUJII, Takaharu UEDA, Masayoshi KAMAI and Kiyoshi NOGI      
 
        Joining and Welding Research Institute, Osaka University, JAPAN
        Session Chair (B5-9): N.Eustathopoulos, National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble-CNRS, France
10:30 - 11:00 B-5 Interface Phenomena and Wettability in the B4C/(Me-Si) Systems (Me=Cu, Au, Sn)  (Invited)
N. Froumin, M. Aizenshtein , N. Frage, and M. P. Dariel
        Materials Engineering Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel 
11:00 - 11:15 B-6 Interfacial Reactions Between Metals and Ceramics at Elevated Temperatures
J.E. Indacochea, S.M. McDeavitt*, and G.W. Billings**
 
        University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
*Argonne National Laboratory, Chemical Technology Division; Argonne, Illinois USA
**West CERAC, Inc., McCarran, Nevada, USA
11:15 - 11:30 B-7 A Reappraisal of the Intrinsic Wettability and Wetting Mechanism in Al/a-Al2O3 System
Ping Shen, Hidetoshi Fujii, Taihei Matsumoto and Kiyoshi Nogi
 
        Joining and Welding Research Institute, Osaka University, Japan
11:30 - 11:45 B-8 Multi-Scale Mixedness Modeling for Controlled Wetting of Molten Metals on Ceramics
R.E. Riman, P.R Mort,* S. Pillai, G. Popov, G. Greene,* A. Mortensen,** N. Eustathopoulos,*** and P. Hoeper
        Ceramic and Materials Engineering, Rutgers, The State Univeristy of New Jersey, USA
*PST Corporation,
**Institute of Materials, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland
***LTPCM-ENSEEG, University of Grenoble, France
11:45 - 12:15 B-9 Spreading Kinetics of Sn3Ag Solders  (Invited)
A. P. Tomsia, N. Rauch and E. Saiz
 
        Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA