ABSTRACT

Ceramic materials have proven increasingly important in industry and in the fields of electronics, communications, optics, transportation, medicine, energy conversion and pollution control, aerospace, construction, and recreation. Professionals in these fields often require an improved understanding of the specific ceramics materials they are using

part |2 pages

Part I: Ceramics as Engineering Materials

chapter 1|4 pages

What Is a Ceramic?

chapter 2|14 pages

History of Ceramics

chapter 3|70 pages

Applications: Engineering with Ceramics

part |2 pages

Structure and Properties

chapter 4|22 pages

Atomic Bonding and Crystal Structure

chapter 7|28 pages

Physical and Thermal Behavior

chapter 8|32 pages

Mechanical Behavior and Measurement

chapter 10|38 pages

Electrical Behavior

chapter 11|46 pages

Dielectric, Magnetic, and Optical Behavior

part |2 pages

Part III: Processing of Ceramics

chapter 12|32 pages

Powder Processing

chapter 13|74 pages

Shape-Forming Processes

chapter 14|52 pages

Densification

chapter 15|18 pages

Final Machining

chapter 16|24 pages

Quality Assurance

part |2 pages

Part IV: Design with Ceramics

chapter 17|8 pages

Design Considerations

chapter 18|14 pages

Design Approaches

chapter 19|30 pages

Failure Analysis

chapter 20|58 pages

Toughening of Ceramics