A probe card board in the present disclosure includes a plurality of through holes designed to receive a probe brought into contact with a measurement object. The probe card board is composed of silicon nitride based ceramics. The probe card board includes a first surface opposed to the measurement object and a second surface located opposite to the first surface. The probe card board contains a plurality of crystal phases of metal silicide. Metal constituting the metal silicide is at least one kind selected from among molybdenum, chrome, iron, nickel, manganese, vanadium, niobium, tantalum, cobalt and tungsten.

A method for making a turbine engine blade includes three-dimensionally weaving elongate fibers of a material selected from the group consisting of carbon, glass, silica, silicon carbide, silicon nitride, aluminum, aramid, aromatic polyamide, and combinations thereof to create a woven preform including a single piece of woven material. The woven preform includes continuous warp fibers extending along a first direction, continuous weft fibers extending along a second direction substantially normal to the first direction, and continuous fibers extending in a third direction substantially normal to the first and the second directions. The woven preform includes an airfoil region extending along the first direction and an arrangement of flaps extending along the second direction. The flaps are folded into a plane substantially normal to a plane of the airfoil region to form a shaped woven preform. The shaped woven preform is densified with a ceramic matrix.

A method for making a turbine engine blade includes three-dimensionally weaving elongate fibers of a material selected from the group consisting of carbon, glass, silica, silicon carbide, silicon nitride, aluminum, aramid, aromatic polyamide, and combinations thereof to create a woven preform including a single piece of woven material. The woven preform includes continuous warp fibers extending along a first direction, continuous weft fibers extending along a second direction substantially normal to the first direction, and continuous fibers extending in a third direction substantially normal to the first and the second directions. The woven preform includes an airfoil region extending along the first direction and an arrangement of flaps extending along the second direction. The flaps are folded into a plane substantially normal to a plane of the airfoil region to form a shaped woven preform. The shaped woven preform is densified with a ceramic matrix.

A turbine assembly includes an axial turbine with an axially arranged series of rotor sections and an external sheath providing structural support for the axial turbine, wherein the sheath is made from dense silicon nitride. Each rotor section includes an outer ring and rotor blades and the outer rings of the rotor sections connect to form a rotating outer casing, wherein the rotor sections are made from reaction bonded silicon nitride.

The present disclosure relates to a method for preparing a silicon nitride ceramic material. The method including: (1) with at least one of silicon powder and silicon nitride powder as original powder and Y.sub.2O.sub.3 powder and MgO powder as sintering aids, the original powder and the sintering aids are mixed in a protective atmosphere, and the mixture is formed into a green body; (2) the resulting green body is put into a reducing atmosphere and pretreated at 500 C. to 800 C. to obtain a biscuit; and the reducing atmosphere is a hydrogen/nitrogen mixed atmosphere with a hydrogen content not higher than 5%; (3) the resulting biscuit is put into a nitrogen atmosphere and subjected to low-temperature heat treatment at 1600 C. to 1800 C. and high-temperature heat treatment at 1800 C. to 2000 C. in sequence.

The present disclosure relates to a method for preparing a silicon nitride ceramic material. The method including: (1) with at least one of silicon powder and silicon nitride powder as original powder and Y.sub.2O.sub.3 powder and MgO powder as sintering aids, the original powder and the sintering aids are mixed in a protective atmosphere, and the mixture is formed into a green body; (2) the resulting green body is put into a reducing atmosphere and pretreated at 500 C. to 800 C. to obtain a biscuit; and the reducing atmosphere is a hydrogen/nitrogen mixed atmosphere with a hydrogen content not higher than 5%; (3) the resulting biscuit is put into a nitrogen atmosphere and subjected to low-temperature heat treatment at 1600 C. to 1800 C. and high-temperature heat treatment at 1800 C. to 2000 C. in sequence.

A porous honeycomb heat storage structure including: a honeycomb structure which has a porous partition wall which defines a plurality of cells extending one end face to the other end face and allows a reaction medium to flow into the cells; and a heat storage portion which is configured by filling a heat storage material performing heat storage and heat dissipation by a reversible chemical reaction with the reaction medium or physical adsorption/desorption in at least a portion of each cells, wherein the heat storage portion has an area ratio in a range from 60% to 90% with respect to a cross sectional area of a honeycomb cross section orthogonal to an axial direction of the honeycomb structure.

A preparation method of a high-thermal-conductivity and net-size silicon nitride ceramic substrate includes the following steps: (1) mixing an original powder, a sintering aid, a dispersant, a defoamer, a binder, and a plasticizer in a protective atmosphere to allow vacuum degassing to obtain a mixed slurry; (2) subjecting the mixed slurry to tape casting and drying in a nitrogen atmosphere to obtain a first green body; (3) subjecting the first green body to shaping pretreatment to obtain a second green body; (4) subjecting the second green body to debonding at 500? C. to 900? C. to obtain a third green body; and (5) subjecting the third green body to gas pressure sintering in a nitrogen atmosphere at 1,800? C. to 2,000? C. to obtain the high-thermal-conductivity and net-size silicon nitride ceramic substrate.

A preparation method of a high-thermal-conductivity and net-size silicon nitride ceramic substrate includes the following steps: (1) mixing an original powder, a sintering aid, a dispersant, a defoamer, a binder, and a plasticizer in a protective atmosphere to allow vacuum degassing to obtain a mixed slurry; (2) subjecting the mixed slurry to tape casting and drying in a nitrogen atmosphere to obtain a first green body; (3) subjecting the first green body to shaping pretreatment to obtain a second green body; (4) subjecting the second green body to debonding at 500? C. to 900? C. to obtain a third green body; and (5) subjecting the third green body to gas pressure sintering in a nitrogen atmosphere at 1,800? C. to 2,000? C. to obtain the high-thermal-conductivity and net-size silicon nitride ceramic substrate.

A method for manufacturing a silicon nitride substrate is provided. The method comprises the steps of: preparing a ceramic composition containing a metal silicon powder and a crystalline phase control powder containing a rare earth element-containing compound and a magnesium-containing compound; manufacturing a sheet-shaped molded body of a slurry prepared by mixing a solvent and an organic binder with the ceramic composition; and performing heat treatment including a nitrification section where heat treatment is performed at a first temperature in the range of 1300-1500? C. together with the application of nitrogen gas to the molded body at a predetermined pressure and a sintering section where heat treatment is performed at a second temperature in the range of 1700-1900? C.