Ceramic Microstructures: Control at the Atomic Level - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0306458179 ISBN 13: 9780306458170

Publisher: Springer, 1998

Synopsis

This volume, titled Proceedings of the International Materials Symposium on Ce­ ramic Microstructures: Control at the Atomic Level summarizes the progress that has been achieved during the past decade in understanding and controlling microstructures in ceram­ ics. A particular emphasis of the symposium, and therefore of this volume, is advances in the characterization, understanding, and control of micro structures at the atomic or near-atomic level. This symposium is the fourth in a series of meetings, held every ten years, devoted to ceramic microstructures. The inaugural meeting took place in 1966, and focussed on the analysis, significance, and production of microstructure; the symposium emphasized the need for, and importance of characterization in achieving a more complete understanding of the physical and chemical characteristics of ceramics. A consensus emerged at that meeting on the critical importance of characterization in achieving a more complete understanding of ceramic properties. That point of view became widely accepted in the ensuing decade. The second meeting took place in 1976 at a time of world-wide energy shortages and thus emphasized energy-related applications of ceramics, and more specifically, microstructure-property relationships of those materials. The third meeting, held in 1986, was devoted to the role that interfaces played both during processing, and in influencing the ultimate properties of single and polyphase ceramics, and ceramic-metal systems.

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Synopsis

The 86 papers report both experimental and theoretical research in which the atomic-scale or near-atomic length scale is of particular relevance to ceramic microstructures. After introductions and overviews, they cover microstructures and interfaces, sintering and grain growth, ceramic-metal interfaces, special techniques and novel processes, collo

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0306458179
• ISBN 13: 9780306458170
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 869
• Editor: Tomsia Antoni P., Glaeser Andreas M.