As part of the 97th annual meeting of the German Ceramic Society (DKG), two doctoral students from the Chair of Structural and Functional Ceramics were awarded.
Abdullah Jabr won the second place in the Hans-Walter-Hennicke lecture competition, which was sponsored by Morgan Advanced Materials Haldenwanger GmbH. The Hans-Walter-Hennicke Lecture Prize is awarded annually by the DKG to the best lectures by young scientists who have completed their thesis (bachelor's or master's thesis) in the field of ceramics. With his lecture "Contact damage tolerance of alumina-based layered ceramics with tailored microstructures", Dipl.-Ing. Jabr convinced the jury by presenting the excellent contact damage tolerance of ceramic architectures with embedded textured layers.
Furthermore, Josef Schlacher was awarded with the second place of the JECS Trust Young Researcher Best Presentation Award for his invited lecture "Fracture toughness of textured alumina grains and grain boundaries determined by micro-cantilever bending tests". In this lecture, current research results on the micro level of textured grains were discussed in order to better understand the macroscopic fracture behavior of layered ceramics.
Both works were carried out as part of the "CeraText" project of the ERC Consolidator Grant (Tailoring Microstructure and Architecture to Build Ceramic Components with Unprecedented Damage Tolerance).
Congratulations to both award winners!
