AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY bulletinemerging ceramics & glass technology SEPTEMBER 2018 ACerS 2018 Annual Meeting, awards, and honors at MS&T18 Columbus, Ohio, October 14–18 New advances in sintering | Indentation fracture toughness testing | Keramos’ deep history and bright future When it Comes to Heat, We Sweat the Details! Your firing needs are unique. Our laboratory can run So why use an “off the tests to help identify your shelf” kiln in your process? process boundaries. Through our toll firing At Harrop, we get it. facility, we can help That’s why, for nearly to further define the a century, we’ve been equipment/processing putting in the hard work combination that works to design and service best for your material. custom kilns. Is it harder And if you are not to do things this way? ready for a new kiln, we Yes. Is the extra effort can toll fire your material worth it? You bet! to help meet your production needs. At Harrop, we don’t stop there. 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Kodera, A. D. Dupuy, E. H. Penilla, and J. E. Garay Ceramic Business and Leadership Summit . 42 Sintering of nanopowders—The dream not 32 (or partially) coming true Surface reactivity of nanopowders complicates sintering to resources dense nanoscale grain structure. New Products . 43 Calendar . 44 by Ricardo H. R. Castro Classified Advertising . 45 Display Ad Index . 47 Indentation fracture toughness: 34 A review and application Vickers indentation eliminates the need for standardized samples to determine fracture toughness of brittle materials. 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All feature articles are covered in Current Contents . 2 www.ceramics.org | American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 97, No. 7 news & trends Corporate Partner news Kyocera TCL Solar completes Prefecture. 103,950 28MW solar power plant in Kyocera’s solar mod- Miyagi Prefecture, Japan ules will generate an estimated 33,000 Kyocera Corporation and Tokyo megawatt hours Century Corporation announced that (MWh) per year — Kyocera TCL Solar LLC has completed construction of a 28 megawatt (MW) enough electricity to utility-scale solar power plant in the power approximately town of Taiwa, Kurokawa District, 11,100 average house- Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. The company holds and capable of providing power to has developed this 28MW solar power Credit: Kyocera plant in collaboration with Tokyo-based almost all local house- Kyocera’s 28MW solar power plant in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan Tsuboi Corporation and started opera- holds in the town of nity while coexisting with the region’s tions in late June 2018. Taiwa, which is adjacent to Sendai City, rich nature. This is the company’s first solar power the heart of the Tohoku region. The Kyocera TCL Solar has constructed plant in Miyagi Prefecture and its second company hopes its solar power plant will solar power plants in 67 sites across Japan, largest solar power plant following the be a local symbol of supporting people’s including this 28MW plant, with approxi- 29.2MW solar power plant in Tottori lives and developing the local commu- mately 258.1 MW of total output since American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 97, No. 7 | www.ceramics.org 3 news & trends the company was established in August Indian refractory industry,”