Abstract: A process for producing a ceramic sinter or inorganic film in which anisotropic particles or anisotropic crystals have been oriented; or a process for producing a bonded composite material which comprises a base sample and another material tenaciously bonded to a surface of the base. The processes are characterized by imposing a centrifugal force during buming (heating).

Abstract: The present invention provides a rotor, a shaft or a sample holder for a centrifugal sintering system, and the present invention relates to a ceramic member for a centrifugal sintering system which is a member consisting of a rotor, a shaft or a sample holder for use in a centrifugal sintering system imparting a centrifugal force field and a temperature field to a molded body of ceramics or metal powder or a ceramic precursor film wherein a rotor for turning a sample holder, a shaft or a sample holder is composed of ceramics, to the ceramic member wherein the rotor which turns the sample holder is composed of conductive silicon carbide ceramics and the rotor alone is selectively caused to self heat by induction heating means to indirectly heat the sample, and to the ceramic member wherein the sample holder is composed of a material with a large dielectric loss and the sample holder alone is selectively heated using dielectric heating means to indirectly heat the sample.

Abstract: When a sintered body of ceramic is shot-blasted at normal temperatures to plastically deform the crystal structure of the shot-blasted surface to apply residual stress and is heat-treated to recrystallize fine cracks, dislocated cells in the grain boundary are formed, crystals are finely divided, and the fracture toughness is significantly improved. When the sintered body of ceramic is a thin product, an effective toughening can be attained by shot blasting both the front and back sides. After heat treatment, mechanical strength is significantly improved by removing a part of the modified surface layer by an abrasion treatment.

Abstract: It is an object to provide a method of manufacturing a porous medium having a grading porous structure, and there are provided a method of manufacturing a porous medium having a grading porous structure, comprising the steps of installing a sample consisting of a powder compact or a porous body in a rotating body, and heating the sample while applying a centrifugal force to the sample through high-speed rotation of the rotating body to produce a porous medium having a grading porous structure in which the pore size and the porosity change gradually by using the pressure grading in the sample arising through the centrifugal force, and such a method wherein the pore size and the porosity of the sample are predicted based on a linear shrinkage factor calculated through the equation:

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for sintering a compact of particulate material for a ceramic or of particles of a metal, or a ceramic precursor film, wherein the sintering is performed by heating and burning the compact or the ceramic precursor film while applying centrifugal force to the compact or the ceramic precursor film.