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When failure occurs in ceramic materials, it is often catastrophic—instantaneous and total. The nature of ceramics makes them especially susceptible to flaws built in during processing and to surface damage from assembly and service. Use of ceramics to carry loads requires understanding of failure modes and proper design to avoid failure.
Mechanical Properties of Ceramics deals thoroughly with causes of mechanical failure of ceramics (including glass) and design for failure avoidance. Experimental facts and theoretical foundations for mechanical behavior are treated. Probabilistic and mechanistic methods of safe design are described and combined to provide design techniques both for moderate temperatures (brittle behavior) and high temperatures (creep behavior). The competing roles of microstructure in weakening and toughening ceramics are explored and interpreted in terms of reliability improvement through processing for controlled and tailored microstructures.
Drawing on his own extensive research experience in the field, Professor John Wachtman evaluates several decades of developments and improvements in theory, experiment, and microstructure. He sorts through numerous sources, cites early works with classic status as well as contemporary advances, and explores the primary aspects of ceramic mechanical behavior in an accessible way, helping materials scientists and engineers achieve desirable mechanical properties.
The book's first three chapters provide readers and students new to the field with the background and fundamentals they will need to understand more advanced material. This coverage includes a mathematical treatment for continuum mechanics and the role of defects in different circumstances. The main body of the text presents the basic science of the mechanical properties of ceramics and deals with the behavior of ceramics under a wide range of environments, temperatures, and loading conditions. The book's final six chapters present tables and figures showing representative data on mechanical properties of important types of ceramics, including glass, traditional polycrystalline ceramics, advanced polycrystalline structural ceramics, and composites.
An excellent textbook for students at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels, Mechanical Properties of Ceramics is also a helpful guide for professionals in the business of producing and designing ceramic structures and devices.
A comprehensive reference on the theory and applications of the mechanical behavior of ceramics
Understanding the mechanical behavior of ceramics is crucial to the prevention of catastrophic failures that occur when the material suddenly breaks under load as a result of crack propagation. This combined text and reference shows how to account for all the variables when designing and producing microstructures or ceramic devices, and offers a cohesive theoretical treatment of the fundamental science of this dynamic field of research.
Mechanical Properties of Ceramics features a broad range of information, useful for scientists and engineers as well as students in materials science, ceramics, or related fields:
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