Engineered Ceramics

Tatsuki Ohji is a Prime Senior Research Scientist of National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and a Designated Professor in the Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Meijo University, Japan. He has authored or coauthored more than 330 peer-reviewed papers and 12 book chapters, edited 30 book volumes, chaired or co-chaired more than 30 international conferences and symposia, and hold more than 40 patents. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Ceramic Society and ASM International, and Academician of the World Academy of Ceramics, he has received numerous awards including ECD Bridge Building Award of the American Ceramic Society, Academic Achievement Award of the Ceramic Society of Japan, IIM Lectureship Award of ASM International, Lee Hsun Lecture Award of IMR Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Distinguished Research Achievement Award of the Japan Society of Powder and Powder Metallurgy.

• Preface ixList of Contributors xiiiPART 1 MATERIALS DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION1 AN INTRODUCTION TO MATERIALS BY DESIGN INCLUDING A DYNAMIC STRESS ENVIRONMENT 3James W. McCauley2 CUSTOM MECHANICAL STRENGTH TEST SPECIMENS FOR BRITTLE MATERIALS AND THEIR COMPONENTS 29Andrew A. Wereszczak3 APPLICABILITY OF PROBABILISTIC ANALYSES TO ASSESS THE STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY OF MATERIALS AND COMPONENTS FOR SOLID-OXIDE FUEL CELLS 46Edgar Lara-Curzio, Miladin Radovic, and Claire R. Luttrell4 FAILURE OF ION-CONDUCTING MATERIALS BY INTERNAL PRECIPITATION UNDER ELECTROLYTIC CONDITIONS 59Anil V. VirkarPART 2 ADVANCED CERAMICS AND CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES5 SILICON NITRIDE CERAMICS 79Stuart Hampshire6 MICROSTRUCTURAL EVOLUTION AND MECHANICAL/THERMAL PROPERTIES OF SILICON NITRIDE CERAMICS 98Tatsuki Ohji and Kiyoshi Hirao7 SILICON NITRIDE CERAMICS FOR TRIBOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS 124Junichi Tatami and Katsutoshi Komeya8 SiC–MATRIX COMPOSITES: TOUGH CERAMICS FOR THERMOSTRUCTURAL APPLICATION IN DIFFERENT FIELDS 142Roger R. Naslain9 LIFE-LIMITING BEHAVIOR AND LIFE MANAGEMENT OF SiC-BASED COMPOSITES 160Ronald J. Kerans10 ADVANCED ENVIRONMENTAL BARRIER COATINGS FOR SiC/SiC CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITE TURBINE COMPONENTS 187Dongming Zhu11 CARBON COMPOSITES WITH CONTROLLED MICROSTRUCTURES 203Lalit Mohan Manocha12 THERMAL PROTECTION MATERIALS AND SYSTEMS: AN OVERVIEW 224Sylvia M. JohnsonPART 3 NOVEL CERAMIC PROCESSING AND INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGIES13 PROGRESS IN ADVANCED CERAMICS RESEARCH ENABLED BY NOVEL PROCESSING AND MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES 247Yoshinari Miyamoto14 REACTION-FORMING OF CERAMIC COMPOSITES USING METALLIC ALUMINUM 261Rolf Janssen, Nahum Travitzky, Peter Greil, and Nils Claussen15 PROCESSING AND MORPHOLOGY CONTROL OF POROUS CERAMICS 276Manabu Fukushima, Paolo Colombo, and Yu-ichi Yoshizawa16 INTEGRATION CHALLENGES IN ALTERNATIVE AND RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS 291Mrityunjay Singh, Rajiv Asthana, and Kun-Lin Lin17 FREE FORM FABRICATION OF CERAMICS COMPONENTS BY THREE-DIMENSIONAL STEREOLITHOGRAPHY 330Soshu Kirihara18 JOINING AND INTEGRATION OF SILICON CARBIDE-BASED CERAMICS AND COMPOSITES FOR HIGH-TEMPERATURE STRUCTURAL APPLICATIONS 352Michael C. Halbig and Mrityunjay SinghPART 4 MULTIFUNCTIONAL CERAMICS19 CURRENT TRENDS IN CERAMIC TECHNOLOGIES AND SYSTEMS 383Alexander Michaelis, Michael Stelter, Hagen Klemm, Ingolf Voigt, and Ralf Kriegel20 OXIDE CERAMICS: THE ROLE OF SURFACE AND GRAIN BOUNDARIES FOR RELIABLE FUNCTIONAL APPLICATIONS 415Jose Arana Varela, Marcelo Ornaghi Orlandi, Eliana Navarro dos Santos Muccillo, and Reginaldo Muccillo21 INTEGRATED STRATEGY TO DISCOVER COMPLEX CERAMICS WITH EXTREMELY LOW THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY 427Jingyang Wang, Zhilin Tian, and Luchao Sun22 CHEMICALLY BONDED PHOSPHATE CERAMICS: STABILIZATION OF SECONDARY WASTES STREAMS 445Dileep Singh, Roopa Ganga, Jose Gaviria, and Yusuf Yusufoglu23 PERSPECTIVES OF NANOSTRUCTURED METAL OXIDES AND THEIR HETEROSTRUCTURES IN PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER SPLITTING FOR SOLAR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION 457Sanjay Mathur, Thomas Fischer, Yakup G¨on¨ull¨u, Myeongwhun Pyeon, and Meng WangIndex 497