A lattice structure includes multiple identical unit cells formed from joined plates. In the lattice structure, some of the plates are rectangular plates, some of the plates are triangular plates, and some of the plates are trapezoidal plates. Further, any two of the joined rectangular plates have corresponding surface normals perpendicular to each other and at least two edges of each one of the triangular plates are joined to one of a surface or an edge of one of the plurality of joined plates. Further, at least three edges of each one of the trapezoidal plates are joined to one of a surface or an edge of one of the plurality of joined plates, and any one of a plurality of surface normals for the triangular plates and the trapezoidal plates are nonparallel to any one of a plurality of surface normals of rectangular plates.

A method for manufacturing a hollow part made of ceramic matrix or metal matrix composite, includes preparing a raw material including short fibers and a ceramic matrix precursor charge, positioning a sacrificial core in a molding cavity of injection-molding equipment, shaping the raw material by injection molding the raw material into the free space between the sacrificial core and an internal wall of the cavity to obtain a green part including the sacrificial core and the shaped raw material, extracting the green part from the equipment, densifying the raw material by flash sintering of the green part to transform the charge into a ceramic matrix, removing the sacrificial core to obtain a hollow part made of ceramic matrix or metal matrix composite, wherein the sacrificial core is coated with a flexible graphite sheet, with a graphite layer deposited by spraying or with a boron nitride paint layer before the injecting.

A manufacturing method for a composite material part includes injecting under pressure a slip containing a refractory ceramic particle powder into the moulding cavity of an injection tooling, draining the liquid from the slip that passed through the moulding cavity and retaining the particle powder inside the moulding cavity to obtain a blank including refractory particles, demoulding the blank, and heat treating the blank to form a part. The injection tooling includes a porous material mould consisting of a moulding cavity, an enclosure of rigid material in which the porous material mould is held, the enclosure further including an injection port, a discharge vent and an injection canal connecting the injection port to the moulding cavity of the porous mould for the injection of the slip into the moulding cavity. The injection tooling includes a sacrificial capsule of porous material placed in moulding cavity.

Provided are a composite ceramic member and a method for preparation thereof, a vaporization assembly, and an electronic cigarette. The composite ceramic member comprises a first ceramic layer, a second ceramic layer, and a third ceramic layer stacked in sequence; in the first ceramic layer, the second ceramic layer, and the third ceramic layer, the first ceramic layer has the smallest pore size and the highest thermal conductivity, the second ceramic layer has the largest porosity, and the third ceramic layer has the highest compressive strength.

The present invention provides a zirconia sintered body containing a fluorescent agent and having excellent translucency and excellent strength. The present invention also provides a zirconia shaped body and a zirconia calcined body from which the zirconia sintered body can be obtained. The present invention relates to a zirconia sintered body comprising a fluorescent agent, wherein the zirconia sintered body comprises 4.5 to 9.0 mol % yttria, and has a crystal grain size of 180 nm or less, and a three-point flexural strength of 500 MPa or more. The present invention relates to a zirconia shaped body comprising a fluorescent agent, wherein the zirconia shaped body comprises 4.5 to 9.0 mol % yttria, and has a three-point flexural strength of 500 MPa or more after being sintered at 1,100° C. for 2 hours under ordinary pressure, and a crystal grain size of 180 nm or less after being sintered at 1,100° C. for 2 hours under ordinary pressure. The present invention relates to a zirconia calcined body comprising a fluorescent agent, wherein the zirconia calcined body comprises 4.5 to 9.0 mol % yttria, and has a three-point flexural strength of 500 MPa or more after being sintered at 1,100° C. for 2 hours under ordinary pressure, and a crystal grain size of 180 nm or less after being sintered at 1,100° C. for 2 hours under ordinary pressure.

A variable-temperature and fast-sintering process for an alumina-doped zinc oxide target material is provided. Integrated degreasing and sintering processes are carried out on an alumina-doped zinc oxide biscuit, The degreasing process is carried out in air atmosphere, and a high-density alumina-doped zinc oxide target material is produced by a variable-temperature treatment during the sintering process under a state of circulating controllable mixed atmosphere. The mixed atmosphere is air and oxygen. As a result, a sintering time is greatly reduced, so that a fast-activated sintering is realized to inhibit grain growth.

A method for preparing a carbon/boron carbide composite material includes the following steps (A) providing a carbon compound, a carbon fiber, a boron compound and a binder to perform a pretreatment mixing procedure to form a precursor; (B) putting the precursor into a spray granulator for performing a granulation process and mixing the precursor to form an injection material with a uniform composition; (C) feeding the injection material into an injection molding machine for performing a compression molding process, thereby forming a carbon compound/boron compound green body; and (D) subjecting the carbon compound/boron compound green body to a two-stage heat treatment process to obtain the carbon/boron carbide composite material.

A process for preparing a porous ceramic body includes forming a green body with a mixture of ceramic material powder, binder material, and pore-forming particles. The process further includes extracting the binder material, decomposing the pore-forming particles, and removing residual organic materials from the green body at respective, progressively higher pre-firing temperatures. After these three stages, the green body is sintered at a still-higher temperature to form the porous ceramic body. Embodiments facilitate manufacturing and can render most or all surface grinding unnecessary, allowing electrode deposition directly onto substantially non-porous surfaces of the porous ceramic body that are naturally formed during sintering. Advantageously, the green body may be formed into net shape by injection molding the mixture that includes the pore-forming particles, and embodiments can result in porous ceramic bodies that are much thicker than currently available, with better structural integrity.

A plasticizing device that plasticizes a material to produce a molten material includes a driving motor, a screw that has a grooved surface on which a groove is formed and rotates by the driving motor; and a barrel having a facing surface that faces the grooved surface and has a communication hole formed in the center and a heater, wherein the screw has a cooling medium flow path provided inside the screw, an inlet portion that communicates with the cooling medium flow path and introduces a cooling medium from the outside of the screw, and an outlet portion that communicates with the cooling medium flow path and discharges the cooling medium to the outside of the screw.

A plasticizing device includes a screw that has a grooved face provided with a first groove, a barrel that has an opposed face and a communication hole communicating with the first groove at the opposed face, and a heating section that heats a material supplied to the first groove, wherein the first groove includes a central portion opposed to the communication hole, a material supply portion that is provided at an outer circumference of the grooved face , and a coupling portion that couples the central portion to the material supply portion, a second groove that is coupled to the communication hole is provided and when viewed from the rotational axis direction, an end at the outer circumferential side of the second groove is located inside a track drawn by a boundary line between the material supply portion and the coupling portion when the screw is rotated once.