A bottom face processing method of a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure including steps of: preparing a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure including a plurality of first cells which extend in parallel with each other from a first bottom face to a second bottom face, and each of which is opened in the first bottom face and has a protruding plugged portion in the second bottom face, and a plurality of second cells each of which is adjacent to at least one of the first cells with a partition wall interposed therebetween, which extend in parallel with each other from the first bottom face to the second bottom face, and each of which has a protruding plugged portion in the first bottom face, and is opened in the second bottom face; and removing the protruding portion from the plugged portion of each of the first cells and the second cells of the pillar-shaped honeycomb structure.

A housing for a portable electronic device includes a radio frequency transparent polycrystalline ceramic portion comprising a first surface and a second surface parallel to the first surface. The radio frequency transparent polycrystalline ceramic portion comprises a macro-texture on at least a portion of the first surface, and a predetermined micro-texture is disposed on at least a portion of the macro-texture. A method for manufacturing a housing for a portable electronic device includes forming a green ceramic article comprising a first surface and a second surface parallel to the first surface, embossing at least a portion of the first surface of the green ceramic article with a macro-texture, and sintering the green ceramic article comprising the macro-texture to form a sintered ceramic article. A predetermined micro-texture is disposed on at least a portion of the macro-texture.

An organic fiber toughened inorganic composite artificial stone panel and a preparation method thereof are disclosed. The panel includes a surface layer, an intermediate organic fiber toughened layer and a toughened base layer. The surface layer includes the following components: 40-70 parts of quartz sand, 20-30 parts of quartz powder, 20-45 parts of inorganic active powder, 0.5-4 parts of pigment, 0.1-3 part of water reducing agent and 3-10 parts of water. The intermediate organic fiber toughened layer includes the following components: 40-60 parts of inorganic active powder, 45-65 parts of sand, 0.8-1.5 parts of water reducing agent, 6-14 parts of water and 4-8 parts of organic fiber. The toughened base layer includes the following components: 30-50 parts of inorganic active powder, 30-55 parts of quartz sand, 15-20 parts of quartz powder, 0.5-1.2 parts of water reducing agent, 4-8 parts of water and 0.8-2.5 parts of toughener.

Disclosed is a machinable dental bulk block that is a glass ceramic block including an amorphous glass matrix and crystalline phases introduced into the matrix. A major crystalline phase is lithium disilicate and a minor crystalline phase is lithium phosphate. The dental block is made of a functionally gradient material in which the major crystalline phase exhibits a gradient of particle sizes in a depth direction of the dental block and which has no interface at a point where the gradient of particle sizes of the major crystalline phase changes. The dental bulk block is useful for production of a dental prosthesis (artificial tooth) similar to a natural tooth. The dental bulk block can reduce time and the number of processing steps to manufacture a dental prosthesis and provides improved structural stability through good force distribution obtained by functionally graded mechanical properties.

A mold construction system is presented for use in additive manufacturing of a metal object. The system comprises: at least one mold provision device controllably operable to form one or more mold regions defining one or more respective metal object regions in a production layer; and a control system operating said at least one mold provision device in accordance with a predetermined building plan. The mold provision device operates, in accordance with said predetermined building plan, to create each mold regions by sequentially forming the following: a metal-facing zone defining a cavity forming the metal object region, and a metal-nonadjacent zone around the metal-facing zone. The metal-facing zone of the mold region is made of a ceramic-based material and is distinct from the metal-nonadjacent zone in at least one of material composition and mold deposition process parameters.

A mold construction system is presented for use in additive manufacturing of a metal object. The system comprises: at least one mold provision device controllably operable to form one or more mold regions defining one or more respective metal object regions in a production layer; and a control system operating said at least one mold provision device in accordance with a predetermined building plan. The mold provision device operates, in accordance with said predetermined building plan, to create each mold regions by sequentially forming the following: a metal-facing zone defining a cavity forming the metal object region, and a metal-nonadjacent zone around the metal-facing zone. The metal-facing zone of the mold region is made of a ceramic-based material and is distinct from the metal-nonadjacent zone in at least one of material composition and mold deposition process parameters.

Disclosed herein are plaster boards having a first surface and an opposing second surface, and a first edge and an opposing second edge that bound the first surface and the second surface. The first surface includes a first section and a second section, the first section being raised compared to the second section, the second section abutting the second edge. The second surface includes a first section and a second section that are separated by a boundary between the first edge and the second edge. The first section of the second surface is substantially parallel to the first section of the first surface. The second section of the second surface slopes toward the first surface from the boundary toward the second edge. Methods for making the plaster boards involve forming wet plaster material and drying the wet plaster material such that the wet plaster material hardens into a plasterboard.

A damaged applicator identifier system for an additive manufacturing (AM) system, and AM system including the same are disclosed. The damaged applicator identifier system may include a damaged applicator identifier determining whether the active applicator is damaged by identifying a non-planar surface in a layer of raw material on a build platform of the AM system after formation of the layer by the active applicator. A damaged applicator controller is configured to cause replacement or repair of the damaged, active applicator in response to the damaged applicator identifier identifying the damaged, active applicator.

A method for manufacturing an underlay material (8) to be set under parquet or a laminate, the underlay material including a sheet material layer (1) and a flexible cellular plastic material layer (3) bonded under the sheet material layer, and a bottom surface of the cellular plastic layer being processed for providing an air space, whereby the bottom surface of the cellular plastic material layer (3) is processed by melting the cellular plastic material locally for providing an air space (9) and for simultaneously bonding the cellular plastic material layer to the sheet material layer (1). An underlay material manufactured by such a method is also described.

The cutting method of a honeycomb formed body includes an end face cutting step of cutting both end faces of the ceramic honeycomb formed body before fired, by use of blade type rough-cutting grinding wheels in which coarse abrasive grain layers are formed; a honeycomb formed body rotating step of rotating the honeycomb formed body round a rotation axis which is a central axis perpendicular to the end faces of the honeycomb formed body; and an end face finishing step of disposing two finish-polishing grinding wheels via a predetermined distance so that finishing abrasive grain layers formed in the finish-polishing grinding wheels face each other, rotating the finish-polishing grinding wheels round a rotary shaft which is a central shaft of the finish-polishing grinding wheels, and moving the honeycomb formed body to pass the honeycomb formed body between the two finish-polishing grinding wheels, thereby finish-polishing cut surfaces which are cut.