Ceramics
Subtitle: Mechanical Properties, Failure Behaviour, Materials Selection
By: edited by Dietrich Munz, Theo Fett
Contributors: Fett, Theo
Series: Springer Series in Materials Science -- 36; Springer series in materials science -- 36.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9783642635809; 9783642584077
Subjects: Surfaces (Physics); Applied Mechanics
Description: Ceramic materials are widely used as components in a great variety of applications. They are attractive due to their good high temperature strength, high wear resistance, good corrosion restistance and other special physical properties. Their major drawback is their brittleness and the large scatter of mechanical properties. This book describes failure phenomena in ceramic materials under mechanical loading, methods for determining the material properties, and the principles that one should apply when selecting a material. The fracture-mechanical and statistical principles and their use in describing the scatter of strength and lifetime are also covered. Special chapters are devoted to creep behaviour, multiaxial failure criteria and thermal shock behaviour.
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Table of contents: title: Overview and Basic Properties; title: Physical Properties; title: Fracture Mechanics; title: R-Curve Behaviour; title: Subcritical Crack Growth; title: Cyclic Fatigue; title: Determination of Strength; title: Scatter of Mechanical Properties; title: Proof-Test Procedure; title: Multiaxial Failure Criteria; title: Thermal-Shock Behaviour; title: High Temperature Behaviour; title: Plasticity; title: Appendices; title: Subject Index.