"Fundamentals Of Ceramics | Physics

Fundamentals of Ceramics presents readers with an exceptionally clear and comprehensive introduction to ceramic science. This Second Edition updates problems and adds more worked examples as well as adding new chapter sections on Computational Materials Science and Case Studies. The Computational Materials Science sections describe how today density functional theory and molecular dynamics calculations can shed valuable light on properties especially ones that are not easy to measure or visualize otherwise such as surface energies elastic constants point defect energies phonon modes etc. The Case Studies sections focus more on applications such as solid oxide fuel cells optical fibers alumina forming materials ultra-strong and thin glasses glass-ceramics strong and tough ceramics fiber-reinforced ceramic matrix composites thermal barrier coatings the space shuttle tiles electrochemical impedance spectroscopy two-dimensional solids field-assisted and microwave sintering colossal magnetoresistance among others.|Fundamentals of Ceramics | Physics