The deformation behavior under three-point bend test was found to depend on the loading uniformity and the macrostructure for SiC reticulated porous ceramics (RPCs). However, this dependence of loading uniformity is alleviated by improved macrostructure with fewer flaws and clogged pores. Even, this dependence becomes less important as the struts become thicker and stronger. The bend result of RPCs with highly uniform macrostructure is in excellent agreement with the GA (Gibson and Ashby) model, but the one with un-uniform macrostructure deviates from the GA model, suggesting that the macrostructure plays an important role in deformation behavior of RPCs under bend.

A porous material with a surface layer was fabricated using glass abrasive sludge and expanding agents. The glass abrasive sludges were mixed with expanding agents and compacted into pellets. These pellets were sintered in the range of for 20min. The sintered porous materials had a surface layer with smaller pores and inner parts with larger pores. The surface layer and pores controlled the absorption ratio and physical properties.

Micro-porous nickel (Ni) with an open cell structure was fabricated by powder metallurgy. The pore size of the micro-porous Ni approximated and . For comparison, porous Ni with a macro-porous structure were also prepared by both powder metallurgy (pore size ) and the traditional chemical vapour deposition method (pore size ). The mechanical properties of the micro-and macro-porous Ni samples were evaluated using compressive tests. Results indicate that the micro-porous Ni samples exhibited significantly enhanced mechanical properties, compared to those of the macro-porous Ni samples.

This paper described the state of art of porous metal materials, the typical manufacturing technologies and performances of sintered metal porous materials, with emphasis on the recent research achievements of CISRI in development of porous metal materials. High performance porous metal materials, such as metallic membrane, sub-micron asymmetric composite porous metal, large dimensional and structure complicated porous metal aeration cones and tube, metallic catalytic filter elements, lotus-type porous materials, etc, have been developed. Their applications in energy industry, petrochemical industry, clean coal process and other industrial fields were introduced and discussed.

Porous bearings are lubricated the oil that is contained in porous metal. Then they are always used with no oil supply, because of that, widely used electric motors. But, if oil flow out less than the limit, troubles often happen. This report shows that attempt of estimating oil quantity in porous bearing by using calculation that based Reynols' equation and Darcy's law, aimed of developing long life bearing. And comparing with experimental and calculation result, we show possibility of estimating rest oil quantity in porous bearing at steadry state by calculation.

Using microwave synthesized HAp nano powder and polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) as a pore-forming agent, the porous biphasic calcium phosphate (BCP) ceramics were fabricated depending on the sintering temperature. The synthesized HAp powders was about 70-90 nm in diameter. In the porous sintered bodies, the pores having were homogeneously dispersed in the BCP matrix. Some amounts of pores interconnected due the necking of PMMA powders which will increase the osteoconductivity and ingrowth of bone-tissues while using as a bone substrate. As the sintering temperature increased, the relative density increased and showed the maximum value of 79.6%. From the SBF experiment, the maximum resorption of ion was observed in the sample sintered at .

Pure and stable YAG powders were synthesized by a PVA (polyvinyl alcohol) polymer solution technique. PVA was used as an organic carrier for the precursor ceramic gel. The precursor gels were crystallized to YAG at relatively a low temperature of . The synthesized powders, which have nano-sized primary particles, were soft and porous, and the porous powders were ground to sub-micron size by a simple ball milling process. The ball-milled powders were densified to 94% relative density at for 1h. In this study, the characteristics of the synthesized YAG powders were examined.

Using as sintering additives and Si as a raw powder, the continuously porous in-situ bodies were fabricated by multi-pass extrusion process and their microstructures were investigated depending on the addition of carbon (0-9wt%) in the mixture powder. The introduction of fibers observed in the unidirectional continuous pores as well as in the pore-frame regions of the nitrided bodies can be an effective method in increasing the filtration efficiency. In the case of no carbon addition, the network type fibers with high aspect ratio appeared in the continuous pores with diameters of 150-200 nm. However, in the case of 9wt% C addition, the fibers were found without any network type and had diameters of 200-250 nm.

The paper presents some results regarding the obtaining of some copper heat pipes with a porous copper internal layer for electronic components cooling. The heat pipes were realized by sintering of spherical copper powders of size directly on the internal side of a copper pipe of 18 mm in diameter. The obtained pipes were then brazed in order to obtain a heat pipe of 0.5 m in length. After that, the heat pipe was sealed and filled with a small quantity of distilled water as working fluid. To establish the total heat transport coefficient and the thermal flow transferred at the evaporator, some external devices were realized to allow the heating of the evaporator and the cooling of the condenser. Water heat pipes are explored in the intermediate temperature range of 303 up to 500 K. Test data are reported for copper water heat pipe, which was tested under different orientations. The obtained results show that the water heat pipe has a good thermal transfer performance in the temperatures range between 345 and 463 K.

Porous titanium implants can be produced by powder metallurgy in combination with suitable space holder materials. Various mechanical experiments were done to characterize this material regarding the influence of the processing parameters on microstructure and mechanical properties taking into account the properties of the human bone. In this paper, the anistropic behaviour of uniaxially compacted samples was analysed in compression tests and compared to the behaviour of isostatically pressed samples. The failure of the struts of the porous titanium and the crack- initiation and -growth was examined by in-situ SEM analysis.

A novel production method for porous metal components has been developed by applying powder space holder (PSH) method to metal powder injection molding (MIM) process. The PSH-MIM method has an industrial competitive advantage that is capable of net-shape manufacturing the micro-sized porous metal products with complicated shapes and controlled porosity and pore size. In this study, the small impeller with homogeneous micro-porous structure was manufactured by the PSH-MIM method. The effects of combinations in size and fraction of PMMA particle on dimensional tolerance and variation of sintered porous specimens were investigated. It was concluded that the PSH-MIM method could manufacture commercially microporous metal components with high dimensional accuracy.

결정질 암반에 위치한 가상의 방사성폐기물처분장에 대한 정확한 안전성 평가를 수행하기 위해서는 다공암반으로 대표되는 공학방벽 및 결정질 암반으로 대표되는 자연방벽을 모두 고려한 매질에서의 물질 거동 특성을 정확하게 모사하는 것이 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 단열-다공암반내 유동 및 물질전달의 정확한 해석을 위한 연결망 구축방법에 대하여 서술하였다. 실제 단열암반을 사실적으로 모사하기 위하여 단열 물성자료는 확률밀도함수를 이용하여 생성하였다. 2차원의 사각격자로 모사된 단열암반과 육면체로 모사된 다공암반간 교차선의 원활한 검색을 위하여 단열암반과 연결전 다공암반의 교차면에 가상의 단열암반을 추가적으로 도입하였다. 전체유동경로를 구성하기 저하여 생성된 단열들 간의 교차선을 효율적으로 검색할 수 있는 방법 및 단열암반 및 단열-다공암반간의 연결도를 신속히 확인하는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 이러한 방법들은 추후 방사성폐기물처분장에서의 단열-다공 암반을 통한 핵종 이동 특성을 모사할 수 있는 수치코드 개발에 많은 도움을 줄 것으로 사료된다.

실리카 입자를 기공 형성제로 사용하여 다공성 키토산 및 키틴 막을 제조하였다. 다공성 막의 제조는 다음의 3단계 절차로서 수행되었다: (1) 키토산 용액에 실리카 입자를 첨가시켜 필름을 형성시킨 후, (2) 이 필름을 알카리 용액에 침지시켜 실리카 입자를 제거하여 다공성의 키토산 막을 제조하였으며, (3) 다공성 키토산 막을 acetic anhydride를 사용하여 아세틸화시킴으로서 다공성 키틴 막을 제조하였다. 물리적 강도가 우수하고, 적절한 순수 투과량을 갖는 다공성 키토산 막과 키틴 막의 최적 제막조건이 제시되었다. 단백질 친화성을 부여하기 위해 다공성 키토산 막에 반응성 염료인 Cibacron Blue 3GA를 고정화시켰으며, BSA 단백질 및 lysozyme 효소의 흡착실험을 수행하여 친화 키토산 막 및 키틴 막의 단백질 결합용량을 측정하였다. 친화 키토산 막의 BSA 단백질 결합용량은 약 22 mg/mL이었으며, 친화 키틴 막의 lysozyme 효소 결합용량은 약 26 mg/mL로서 이는 키토산 또는 키틴을 기반으로 하여 제조된 hydrogel bead의 단백질 결합용량보다 수~수십 배 큰 값으로서, 향후 막여과 크로마토그래피용 친화 막으로의 효과적인 활용이 기대된다.