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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299718203321

Autore

Pelleg Joshua

Titolo

Mechanical Properties of Ceramics / / by Joshua Pelleg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-319-04492-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXII, 765 p. 780 illus., 169 illus. in color.)

Collana

Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, , 0925-0042 ; ; 213

Disciplina

620.1404292

Soggetti

Mechanics

Mechanics, Applied

Materials science

Mathematical physics

Solid Mechanics

Characterization and Evaluation of Materials

Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 Mechanical Testing of Ceramics -- 2 Ductile Ceramics -- 3 Imperfections (Defects) in Ceramics -- 4 Deformation in Ceramics -- 5 The Strength and Strengthening of Ceramics -- 6 Time-Dependent Deformation – Creep -- 7 Cyclic Stress – Fatigue -- 8 Fracture -- 9 Mechanical Properties of Nano-Grain-Size Ceramics -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.  Various aspects of the mechanical properties are discussed in the following chapters, among them, strengthening mechanisms, time dependent and cyclic deformation of ceramics. Many practical illustrations are provided representing various observations encountered in actual ceramic-structures of particularly technical significance.  A comprehensive list of references at the end of each chapter is included in this textbook to provide a broad basis for further studying the subject.  The work also contains a unique chapter on a topic not discussed in other textbooks on ceramics concerning nanosized ceramics.  This work will also be useful as a reference for materials scientists, not only to those who specialize in ceramics.