Ceramic Materials: Science and Engineering (Paperback, 2, Softcover Repri)

Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Foreword PART I: History and Introduction Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 Definitions 1.2 General Properties 1.3 Types of Ceramic and their Applications 1.4 Market 1.5 Critical Issues for the Future 1.6 Relating Microstructure, Processing and Applications 1.7 Safety 1.8 Ceramics on the Internet 1.9 On Units Chapter 2: Some History 2.1 Earliest Ceramics: the Stone Age 2.2 Ceramics in Ancient Civilizations 2.3 Clay 2.4 Types of Pottery 2.5 Glazes 2.6 Development of a Ceramics Industry 2.7 Plaster and Cement 2.8 Brief History of Glass 2.9 Brief History of Refractories 2.10 Major Landmarks of the 20 th Century 2.11 Museums 2.12 Societies 2.13 Ceramic Education PART II: Materials Chapter 3: Background You Need to Know 3.1 The Atom 3.2 Energy Levels 3.3 Electron Waves 3.4 Quantum Numbers 3.5 Assigning Quantum Numbers 3.6 Ions 3.7 Electronegativity 3.8 Thermodynamics: the Driving Force for Change 3.9 Kinetics: the Speed of Change Chapter 4: Bonds and Energy Bands 4.1 Types of Interatomic Bond 4.2 Young's Modulus 4.3 Ionic Bonding 4.4 Covalent Bonding 4.5 Metallic Bonding in Ceramics 4.6 Mixed Bonding 4.7 Secondary Bonding 4.8 Electron Energy Bands Chapter 5: Models, Crystals and Chemistry 5.1 Terms and Definitions 5.2 Symmetry and Crystallography 5.3 Lattice Points, Directions and Planes 5.4 The Importance of Crystallography 5.5 Pauling's Rules 5.6 Close-Packed Arrangements: Interstitial Sites 5.7 Notation for Crystal Structures 5.8 Structure, Composition and Temperature 5.9 Crystals, Glass, Solids and Liquid 5.10 Defects 5.11 Computer Modeling Chapter 6: Binary Compounds 6.1 Background 6.2 CsCl 6.3 NaCl (MgO, TiC, PbS) 6.4 GaAs (beta-SiC) 6.5 AlN (BeO, ZnO) 6.6 CaF 2 6.7 FeS 2 6.8 Cu 2 O 6.9 CuO 6.10 TiO 2 6.11 Al 2 O 3 6.12 MoS 2 and CdI 2 6.13 Polymorphs, Polytypes and Polytypoids Chapter 7: Complex Crystal and Glass Structures 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Spinel 7.3 Perovskite 7.4 The Silicates and Structures Based on SiO4 7.5 Silica 7.6 Olivine 7.7 Garnets 7.8 Ring Silicates 7.9 Micas and Other Layer Materials 7.10 Clay Minerals 7.11 Pyroxene 7.12 beta-Aluminas and Related Materials 7.13 Calcium Aluminate and Related Materials 7.14 Mullite 7.15 Monazite 7.16 YBa2Cu3O7 and Related HTSCs 7.17 Si3N4, SiAlONs and Related Materials 7.18 Fullerenes and Nanotubes 7.19 Zeolites and Microporous Compounds 7.20 Zachariasen's Rules for the Structure of Glass 7.21 Revisiting Glass Structures Chapter 8: Equilibrium Phase Diagrams 8.1 What's Special About Ceramics? 8.2 Determining Phase Diagrams 8.3 Phase Diagrams for Ceramists: The Books 8.4 Gibbs Phase Rule 8.5 One Component ( C = 1) 8.6 Two Components ( C = 2) 8.7 Three and More Components 8.8 Composition with Variable Oxygen Partial Pressure 8.9 Ternary Diagrams and Temperature 8.10 Congruent and Incongruent Melting 8.11 Miscibility Gaps in Glass PART III: Tools Chapter 9: Furnaces 9.1 The Need for High Temperatures 9.2 Types of Furnace 9.3 Combustion Furnaces 9.4 Electrically Heated Furnaces 9.5 Batch or Continuous Operation 9.6 Indirect Heating 9.7 Heating Elements 9.8 Refractories 9.9 Furniture, Tubes and Crucibles 9.10 Firing Process 9.11 Heat Transfer 9.12 Measuring Temperature 9.13 Safety Chapter 10: Characterizing Structure, Defects and Chemistry 10.1 Characterizing Ceramics 10.2 Imaging using Visible-Light, IR and UV 10.3 Imaging using X-rays and CT scans 10.4 Imaging in the SEM 10.5 Imaging in the TEM 10.6 Scanning-Probe Microscopy 10.7 Scattering and Diffraction Techniques 10.8. Photon Scattering 10.9 Raman and IR Spectroscopy 10.10 NMR Spectroscopy and Spectrometry 10.11 Mossbauer Spectroscopy and Spectrometry 10.12 Diffraction in the EM 10.13 Ion Scattering (RBS) 10.14 X-ray Diffraction and Databases 10.15 Neutron Scattering 10.16 Mass Spectrometry 10.17 Spectrometry in t