Content: Preface ix List of Contributors xiii PART 1 MATERIALS DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO MATERIALS BY DESIGN INCLUDING A DYNAMIC STRESS ENVIRONMENT 3James W. McCauley 2 CUSTOM MECHANICAL STRENGTH TEST SPECIMENS FOR BRITTLE MATERIALS AND THEIR COMPONENTS 29Andrew A. Wereszczak 3 APPLICABILITY OF PROBABILISTIC ANALYSES TO ASSESS THE STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY OF MATERIALS AND COMPONENTS FOR SOLID-OXIDE FUEL CELLS 46Edgar Lara-Curzio, Miladin Radovic, and Claire R. Luttrell 4 FAILURE OF ION-CONDUCTING MATERIALS BY INTERNAL PRECIPITATION UNDER ELECTROLYTIC CONDITIONS 59Anil V. Virkar PART 2 ADVANCED CERAMICS AND CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES 5 SILICON NITRIDE CERAMICS 79Stuart Hampshire 6 MICROSTRUCTURAL EVOLUTION AND MECHANICAL/THERMAL PROPERTIES OF SILICON NITRIDE CERAMICS 98Tatsuki Ohji and Kiyoshi Hirao 7 SILICON NITRIDE CERAMICS FOR TRIBOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS 124Junichi Tatami and Katsutoshi Komeya 8 SiC-MATRIX COMPOSITES: TOUGH CERAMICS FOR THERMOSTRUCTURAL APPLICATION IN DIFFERENT FIELDS 142Roger R. Naslain 9 LIFE-LIMITING BEHAVIOR AND LIFE MANAGEMENT OF SiC-BASED COMPOSITES 160Ronald J. Kerans 10 ADVANCED ENVIRONMENTAL BARRIER COATINGS FOR SiC/SiC CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITE TURBINE COMPONENTS 187Dongming Zhu 11 CARBON COMPOSITES WITH CONTROLLED MICROSTRUCTURES 203Lalit Mohan Manocha 12 THERMAL PROTECTION MATERIALS AND SYSTEMS: AN OVERVIEW 224Sylvia M. Johnson PART 3 NOVEL CERAMIC PROCESSING AND INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGIES 13 PROGRESS IN ADVANCED CERAMICS RESEARCH ENABLED BY NOVEL PROCESSING AND MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES 247Yoshinari Miyamoto 14 REACTION-FORMING OF CERAMIC COMPOSITES USING METALLIC ALUMINUM 261Rolf Janssen, Nahum Travitzky, Peter Greil, and Nils Claussen 15 PROCESSING AND MORPHOLOGY CONTROL OF POROUS CERAMICS 276Manabu Fukushima, Paolo Colombo, and Yu-ichi Yoshizawa 16 INTEGRATION CHALLENGES IN ALTERNATIVE AND RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS 291Mrityunjay Singh, Rajiv Asthana, and Kun-Lin Lin 17 FREE FORM FABRICATION OF CERAMICS COMPONENTS BY THREE-DIMENSIONAL STEREOLITHOGRAPHY 330Soshu Kirihara 18 JOINING AND INTEGRATION OF SILICON CARBIDE-BASED CERAMICS AND COMPOSITES FOR HIGH-TEMPERATURE STRUCTURAL APPLICATIONS 352Michael C. Halbig and Mrityunjay Singh PART 4 MULTIFUNCTIONAL CERAMICS 19 CURRENT TRENDS IN CERAMIC TECHNOLOGIES AND SYSTEMS 383Alexander Michaelis, Michael Stelter, Hagen Klemm, Ingolf Voigt, and Ralf Kriegel 20 OXIDE CERAMICS: THE ROLE OF SURFACE AND GRAIN BOUNDARIES FOR RELIABLE FUNCTIONAL APPLICATIONS 415Jose Arana Varela, Marcelo Ornaghi Orlandi, Eliana Navarro dos Santos Muccillo, and Reginaldo Muccillo 21 INTEGRATED STRATEGY TO DISCOVER COMPLEX CERAMICS WITH EXTREMELY LOW THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY 427Jingyang Wang, Zhilin Tian, and Luchao Sun 22 CHEMICALLY BONDED PHOSPHATE CERAMICS: STABILIZATION OF SECONDARY WASTES STREAMS 445Dileep Singh, Roopa Ganga, Jose Gaviria, and Yusuf Yusufoglu 23 PERSPECTIVES OF NANOSTRUCTURED METAL OXIDES AND THEIR HETEROSTRUCTURES IN PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER SPLITTING FOR SOLAR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION 457Sanjay Mathur, Thomas Fischer, Yakup GΓΒ¨onΓΒ¨ullΓΒ¨u, Myeongwhun Pyeon, and Meng Wang Index 497