Fundamentals of ceramics

✍ Scribed by Barsoum, M. W

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 645
• Series: Series in materials science and engineering
• Edition: Second edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"This second edition of Fundamentals of Ceramics adds a section on density functional theory calculations for shedding light on properties. It also adds more on applications, including solid oxide fuel cells as a case study and a major overhaul of the last chapter on optical properties"--

Abstract:

"This second edition of Fundamentals of Ceramics adds a section on density functional theory calculations for shedding light on properties. It also adds more on applications, including solid oxide fuel cells as a case study and a major overhaul of the last chapter on optical properties"--  Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Bonding in ceramics --
Structure of ceramics --
Effect of chemical forces on physcial properties --
Thermodynamics and kinetic considerations --
Defects in ceramics --
Diffusion and electrical conductivity --
Phase equilibria --
Formation, structure, and properties of glass --
Sintering and grain growth --
Mechanical properties: fast fracture --
Creep, subcritical crack growth, and fatigue --
Thermal properties --
Dielectric properties --
Magnetic and nonlinear dielectric properties --
Optical properties.

✦ Subjects

Ceramic engineering.