About the Book
Ceramic-matrix composites are strong, tough, environmentally stable, light in weight, and have the ability to withstand high operating temperatures. These characteristics make them viable candidate materials for high temperature structural applications. Twenty three are included in this volume describing the latest developments in the areas of ceramic fibers, processing and fabrication, oxide and non-oxide composites, carbon-carbon composites, geopolymer composites, mechanical behavior, corrosion and environmental effects, characterization, fiber-matrix interface, design of composites, and thermal/environmental barrier coatings.
Table of Contents:
Ceramic Fibers. Fine Ceramic Fibers: From Microstructure to High Temperature Mechanical Behavior (M.-H. Berger). Fabrication and Grain Growth in YAG and Mullite Fibers (W.M. Kriven, K. Jurkschat, B.R. Johnson, W. Yoon, and C. Chiritescu). Raman and Rayleigh Imaging of the Corrosion Process of SiC Fibers (M. Havel and Ph. Colomban). Processing and Design. The Use of Electrophoretic Deposition for the Fabrication of Ceramic and Glass Matrix Composites (A.R. Boccaccini and C. Kaya). Fabrication of Reaction Sintered SiC Based Materials with Nanosize Particle Infiltration (S.P. Lee, J.O. Jin, and A. Kohyama). Production of Al2O3-Ti3Al Cermets by the Pressureless Reaction Sintering Process (E. Rocha-Rangel, C.L. Echeverria, R.L. Hernandez, V.S. Cortes, and G.M. Gonzalez). Production of Multilayer Ceramic Laminates with Improved Mechanical Properties (M. Bertoldi, M. Paternoster, and V.M. Sglavo). Designing with C/C-SiC Composites (W. Krenkel). Preparation and Characterization of La-In-Mg-O and La-In-Ca-O Ceramic Matrix Composites (C.-F. Kao and C.-T. Wu). Oxide Matrix Composites. Development of Si3N4/BAS Ceramic Matrix Composite for Engineering Applications (F. Yu, Y. Fang, K.W. White). Interfacial Behavior of Two Oxide/Oxide Composites (N. Du Souich, Y. Fang, U. Wilkund, and K.W. White). Geopolymers and Geopolymer Matrix Composites. What are These Things Called Geopolymers? A Physicochemical Perspective (K.J.D. MacKenzie). Effect of Blast Furnace Slag Addition on Microstructure and Properties of Metakoalinite Geopolymeric Materials (C.K. Yip, G.C. Lukey, and J.S.J. van Deventer). Composite Cold Ceramic Geopolymer in a Refractory Application (D.C. Comrie and W.M. Kriven). Microstructure and Michrochemistry of Fully-Reacted Geopolymers and Geopolymer Matrix Composites (W.M. Kriven, J.L. Bell, and M. Gorden). Mechanical Properties. Mechanical Behavior of Carbon-Carbon Composites at Room and Elevated Temperatures (N. Sundaram, R.W. Trice, and T.J. Bowman). Effect of Thermal Exposure on Microstructural and Mechanical Characteristics of Reaction Sintered SiC Based Materials (S.P. Lee, J.O. Lin, J.K. Lee, B.H. Min, H.K. Yoon, J.S. Park, Y. Katoh, and A. Kohyama). Fatigue Life and Crack Growth Behavior of Al18B4O33 Whisker Reinforced Composite (W.J. Park, Y.B. Choi, S.C. Huh, and H.K. Yoon). Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Alumina-Copper Composites (S. Menon, and W.G. Fahrenholtz). Characterization. Characterization of Zirconium Diboride-Molybdenum Disilicide Ceramics (A.L. Chamberlain, W.G. Fahrenholtz, G.E. Hilmas, and D.T. Ellerby). Sliding Wear Characteristics and Processing of MoSi2 Composites (Y.H. Park, H.K. Yoon, S.P. Lee, W.J. Park, Y.B. Choi, and S.C. Huh). Enhanced Wetting of Carbon-Coated Alumina Substrates by Aluminum Alloys (E. Rocha-Rangel, P.F. Becher, and E. Lara-Curzio). Thermal/Environmental Barrier Coatings. Thermal Conductivity and Stability of HfO2-Y2O3 and La2Zr2O7 Evaluated for 1650-C Thermal/Environmental Barrier Coating Applications (D. Zhu, N.P. Bansal, and R.A. Miller).
About the Author :
Narottam P. Bansal, PhD, is Senior Research Scientist at the NASA Glenn Research Center, where he has conducted research on glasses, ceramics, and composites since 1985. In addition to publishing more than 230 papers, Dr. Bansal holds seven patents and is the author or editor of five books and 32 conference proceedings.
J. P. Singh is the editor of Advances in Ceramic Matrix Composites IX, published by Wiley.
Waltraud M. Kriven is Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Professor Kriven received her Ph.D. in 1976 in Solid State Chemistry from the University of Adelaide in South Australia and her B.Sc. (Honors) and Baccalaureate degrees in Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Biochemistry from the same institute. She is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of phase transformations in inorganic compounds and their applications in structural ceramic composites. She has authored or co-authored over 240 research publications, and fourteen books to date.
Hartmut Schneider is the head of the "Structural and Functional Ceramics" group at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Materials Research, Köln (Germany) and is a Professor of Applied Mineralogy at the University of Hannover (Germany). He has been working on different topics of high pressure mineralogy and on refractory and ceramic materials. He is renowned for his research work in crystal chemistry, ceramics and composites of mullite, an alumino silicate of the stoichiometric composition 3Al2O3·2SiO2. Professor Schneider has published over 200 scientific and technical papers. His list of awards includes the Japanese Government Research Award, the Lilienthal Award, and the Fellowship of the American Ceramic Society.
