The European Ceramic Society
Laboratory sheet
Austria
Lehrstuhl für Gesteinshüttenkunde – Montanuniversitaet Leoben
Chair of Ceramics
Director : Prof. Harald HARMUTH
Email : harald.harmuth@unileoben.ac.at
Phone : +43 3842 402 3201
Address : Franz Josef-Strasse 18, 8700 LEOBEN
Research topics :
With respect to materials the scope of the chair of ceramics comprises ordinary ceramic refractories, slags, mineral binders, concrete, glass, and non refractory ceramics with a main focus on refractories slags and melts, mineral binders and building materials. With respect to methods applied, research concentrates on microstructural characterization, determination of properties (mechanical and fracture mechanical properties, properties of melts and slags), failure analysis, simulation of thermomechanical material behavior, CFD simulation and thermochemical calculation.
Selected topics:
- Thermomechanical material models for ordinary ceramic refractories.
- Simulation of refractory lining behavior and design.
- DE simulation of ordinary ceramic structures.
- Nonoxides for refractory applications.
- Corrosion of refractory components in slags.
- CFD simulation assisting investigations of slag/refractory and slag/steel interaction.
- Alternative mineral hydraulic binders.
Exceptional facilities :
High temperature fracture mechanical testing equipment; uniaxial high temperature compressive and tensile creep testing; high temperature dissolution testing device; Double/Single Hot Thermocouple Technique for investigation of slag crystallization; hot stage microscopy.
Financial support programmes :
- European fundings: ETN ATHOR
- National fundings: COMET (K1 Met, K2 IC-MPPE)
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2027 ECerS International Ceramist Student Exchange Program – 1st call - ICACC 2027
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