Members participate and receive information at the national level
through a structure of Divisions. ACerS is comprised of 10 divisions, which address all disciplines in technical ceramics. Members may select
affiliation with the divisions listed below.
Contact Membership Staff, Marcia Stout,
for information on updating your Division page.
Divisions may submit their yearly report to the Board
of Directors using this form (Microsoft Word format).
All Division web pages are maintained by the individual Division.
- Art: Concentrates on the design and production of consumer ceramic products such as dinnerware, tile, glass, and ceramic art. This division emphasizes educating designers in using leading-edge technology to design ceramic products.
- Basic Science: Focuses on the basic properties of materials. Researchers concerned with the chemistry and physics of ceramic materials examine processing techniques, behavior, performance, and failure mechanisms.
- Cements: Involved with the research, development, manufacturing and sale of cements, limes, and plasters. Developments in portland cement and lightweight, high-strength cements occupy much of the Division members' efforts.
- Electronics: Deals with capacitors, superconductors, varistors, electronic packages, sensors, semiconductors and other electronic devices. Applications include components for microcomputers, calculators, watches, TV sets, stereo systems, communication satellites, recording heads, microwave ovens, automotive control systems, and lasers.
- Engineering Ceramics: Examines advanced ceramics such as coatings and structural ceramics that are of monolithic or composite composition. Division members also are concerned with the application of advanced ceramics in fields as diverse as automotive components, bioceramics, aerospace, armor, and commercial products.
- Glass & Optical Materials: Focuses on the scientific research and development, application and manufacture of all types of glasses, including fiber optics, the encapsulation of nuclear and hazardous wastes in glasses and the interaction of glass and ceramics in biosystems. Members of this Division work with glasses in the optical, aerospace, window, and electronic industries among others.
- Nuclear & Environmental Technology: Explores applications of nuclear ceramics in energy production and medicine. Current uses of ceramics in this field include fuel and absorber materials for fission reactors as isotopic heat sources and for safe encapsulation of nuclear and hazardous waste materials.
- Refractory Ceramics: Examines the science, production and application of ceramics for use at elevated temperatures and in other hostile environments. Members of this Division are involved in materials development, formulation, production, and engineering of refractories for the iron, steel, aluminum, and other nonferrous metals industries as well as the minerals processing, glass, cement, and petrochemical industries.
- Structural Clay Products: Emphasizes the most efficient and economical ways to manufacture of brick, pipe, red-body tile, and other structural clay products.
- Whitewares
and Materials: Concentrates on finding ways to
improve the production of whiteware products and the
production and processing of minerals, materials, and
additives used in manufacturing ceramic products. Members
are participants in the manufacture of dinnerware, tile,
pottery and sanitary ware or are suppliers of raw materials,
kilns and furnaces, forming and finishing equipment,
instrumentation and all other devices used in the production
of ceramics.
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