Research

Materials Characterization & Testing

Key Topics: Fractography, rheology, surface analysis, suspension chemistry.

Normal Fracture Surfaces
  • Lee & Carty (2022) – Vickers Hardness vs. Predicted Liquidus Temp in Glasses

Correlates hardness with phase diagram predictions to enable materials design from first principles.

  • Ciccarella et al. (2023) – Two-Parameter Particle Size Models

Introduces an efficient mathematical framework to describe particle size distributions for predictive processing control.

  • Tseng et al. (2019) – Quantitative Mineralogy

Uses the Rule-of-Mixtures short-cut to obtain quantitative mineralogy through density and thermal expansion measurements of sintered ceramic specimens.

  • Carty et al. (2001–2016) – Comprehensive Work on Rheology & Plasticity

Series of studies outline how particle interactions (via chemistry and dispersants), water content, and particle size distribution, affect and ceramic body flow behavior.