Advanced Structural Ceramics by Bikramjit Basu, Kantesh Balani - 9780470497111

Advanced Structural CeramicsAuthor(s): Bikramjit Basu, Kantesh Balani\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, United States\nImprint: Wiley-American Ceramic Society\nISBN-13: 9780470497111, 978-0470497111\nSynopsis\nThis book covers the area of advanced ceramic composites broadly, providing important introductory chapters to fundamentals, processing, and applications of advanced ceramic composites. Within each section, specific topics covered highlight the state of the art research within one of the above sections. The organization of the book is designed to provide easy understanding by students as well as professionals interested in advanced ceramic composites. The various sections discuss fundamentals of nature and characteristics of ceramics, processing of ceramics, processing and properties of toughened ceramics, high temperature ceramics, nanoceramics and nanoceramic composites, and bioceramics and biocomposites.