At the invitation of China Building Materials Academy and China Building Materials Test and Certification Group Co., Ltd. (CTC), Professor Jacques Lamon, Director at CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research), delivered a special academic report titled “Fiber Reinforced Ceramic Matrix Composites: a class of versatile and smart materials” on the morning of October 15 in the first-floor conference room of the State Key Laboratory of Green Building Materials. The report was chaired by Professor Bao Yiwang, Chief Scientist of CTC. Scientific and technical staff and graduate students from the Ceramics Institute and Cement Institute of China Building Materials Academy, CTC, and the 306th Institute of the Third Academy of China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation attended the academic report.

Professor Jacques Lamon has long been engaged in research on the reliability of ceramics and the mechanical properties of ceramic matrix composites. He is a Member of the World Ceramic Art Society and Convenor of Working Group 4 (WG 4) of ISO TC 206 (Technical Committee for Fine Ceramics Standardization), and has developed more than 10 international standards for composite materials. He has published more than 130 SCI papers and authored two books on probabilistic mechanics of brittle fracture damage in ceramics and composite materials. He received an award from Seymour Cray Company for statistical research on predicted failure based on brittle fracture.

In this academic report, combining his years of scientific research achievements, Professor Jacques Lamon gave an in-depth and systematic explanation of the theoretical and experimental research on fiber-reinforced ceramic matrix composites, with emphasis on analyzing and elaborating the functionality and intelligence of fiber-reinforced ceramic matrix composites. In addition to an in-depth and systematic explanation of the properties of fiber-reinforced ceramic matrix composites, Professor Jacques Lamon also introduced international development trends of composite materials and presented relevant academic literature and research results. The scientific and technical staff and students from China Building Materials Academy, CTC, and the 306th Institute of the Third Academy of China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation who attended the report showed strong interest in the content, conducted relatively in-depth academic exchanges and discussions with Professor Jacques Lamon on issues related to mechanical property evaluation, design, and durability of fiber composites, benefited greatly, and gained profound inspiration for future scientific research work on fiber-reinforced ceramic matrix composites.

Before the meeting, accompanied by Wan Detian, Executive Deputy President of the Central Research Institute of CTC, Professor Jacques Lamon visited CTC's high-temperature and ultra-high-temperature mechanical property testing service experimental base and the State Key Laboratory of Green Building Materials of China Building Materials Academy. The two sides will further carry out cooperation in the international standardization of ceramic mechanical property testing technology and the performance evaluation of composite materials.