A method of fabricating a composite component, includes forming a fibrous preform by forming a first ceramic particle layer over a first textile layer, the first ceramic particle layer having a first group of ceramic particles, disposing a second textile layer over the first ceramic particle layer, forming a second ceramic particle layer over the second textile layer, the second ceramic particle layer having a second group of ceramic particles, and disposing a third textile layer over the second ceramic particle layer. The method further includes densifying the fibrous preform.

Disclosed is a fused grain having the following chemical composition, expressed in percentages by mass on the basis of the oxides: ZrO.sub.2+HfO.sub.2: 2% to 13%; elements other than ZrO.sub.2, HfO.sub.2, Y.sub.2O; and Al.sub.2O.sub.3: 2%. Y.sub.2O.sub.3+Al.sub.2O.sub.3: made up to 100%; with 0.0065Y.sub.2O;/(ZrO.sub.2+HfO.sub.2)0.1300.

Methods for preparing ceramic matrix composites using melt infiltration and chemical vapor infiltration are provided as well as the resulting ceramic matrix composites. The methods and products include the incorporation of sacrificial fibers to provide improved infiltration of the fluid infiltrant. The sacrificial fibers are removed, such as decomposed during pyrolysis, resulting in the formation of regular and elongate channels throughout the ceramic matrix composite. Infiltration of the fluid infiltrant can then take place using the elongate channels resulting in improved density and an improved ceramic matrix composite product.

A method for manufacturing a magnesium-based thermoelectric conversion material of the present invention includes a raw material-forming step of forming a raw material for sintering by adding silicon oxide in an amount within a range equal to or greater than 0.5 mol % and equal to or smaller than 13.0 mol % to a magnesium-based compound, and a sintering step of heating the raw material for sintering at a temperature within a range equal to or higher than 750 C. and equal to or lower than 950 C. while applying pressure equal to or higher than 10 MPa to the raw material for sintering so as to form a sintered substance.

A solid electrolyte body for a gas sensor element constituted by solid electrolyte particles made of zirconia containing a stabilizer has a solid electrolyte phase in which a large number of the solid electrolyte particles are aggregated, and, in the solid electrolyte phase, pairs of the solid electrolyte particles adjoining each other do not have a particle interface impurity layer between their particle interfaces, and the particle interfaces directly contact with each other.

The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a colored blank, which contains zirconium dioxide and is intended for the manufacture of a dental restoration, whereby raw materials in powder form, at least some of which contain one coloring substance each, are mixed with, zirconium dioxide as the main ingredient, the resulting mixture is pressed and subsequently subjected to at least one thermal treatment. To generate the desired fluorescence, it is intended that in the raw materials in powder form one uses as coloring substances at least terbium, erbium, cobalt, as well as one substance that generates a fluorescence effect in the dental restoration, however not iron, aside from naturally occurring impurities.

An oriented alumina substrate for epitaxial growth according to an embodiment of the present invention includes crystalline grains constituting a surface thereof, the crystalline grains having a tilt angle of 1 or more and 3 or less and an average sintered grain size of 20 m or more.

An oriented alumina substrate for epitaxial growth according to an embodiment of the present invention includes crystalline grains constituting a surface thereof, the crystalline grains having a tilt angle of 0.1 or more and less than 1.0 and an average sintered grain size of 10 m or more.

The sintered body including boron carbide, wherein the sintered body includes a zone, in which a volume ratio of grains having a grain size of greater than 30 ?m and 60 ?m or less is in a range of 50% to 70% based on a total volume of grains, as observed on a surface of the sintered body, is disclosed.

A method of manufacture for a carbon/carbon part including a method to remove contamination from an intermediate product of the carbon/carbon part and furnace utilizing a gaseous reducing agent hydrogen gas to reduce the contaminates, thereby causing the contaminates to transition to a gaseous state at relatively lower temperatures. A method to remove contamination from an intermediate product of the carbon/carbon part and furnace utilizing hydrogen gas to reduce the contaminates, thereby causing the contaminates to transition to a gaseous state at relatively lower temperatures.