Mechanical properties of ceramics [electronic resource] / Joshua Pelleg.

Mechanical properties of ceramics [electronic resource] / Joshua Pelleg.

9783319044927 electronic book
3319044923 electronic book
9783319044910

Cham : Springer, 2014.

English

1 online resource (xxii, 765 pages) : illustrations (some color).

10.1007/978-3-319-04492-7 doi

TP807

620.1/404292

This book discusses the mechanical properties of ceramics and aims to provide both a solid background for undergraduate students, as well as serving as a text to bring practicing engineers up to date with the latest developments in this topic so they can use and apply these to their actual engineering work.? Generally, ceramics are made by moistening a mixture of clays, casting it into desired shapes and then firing it to a high temperature, a process known as 'vitrification'. The relatively late development of metallurgy was contingent on the availability of ceramics and the know-how to mold them into the appropriate forms. Because of the characteristics of ceramics, they offer great advantages over metals in specific applications in which hardness, wear resistance and chemical stability at high temperatures are essential. Clearly, modern ceramics manufacturing has come a long way from the early clay-processing fabrication method, and the last two decades have seen the development of sophisticated techniques to produce a large variety of ceramic material. The chapters of this volume are ordered to help students with their laboratory experiments and guide their observations in parallel with lectures based on the current text. Thus, the first chapter is devoted to mechanical testing, followed by the theoretical basis of the subject.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Solid mechanics and its applications ; v.213. 0925-0042

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