Particulate Composites Fundamentals and Applications [Paperback]

This book is focused on composites involving powders as the starting materials. It provides relevant information for questions related to the selection of constituent phases, most economic fabrication routes, proper testing procedures, and product optimization. The field is sufficiently advanced that predictive models guide many decisions. Applications are illustrated over a broad range of material and property combinations. This title includes:

Selection of phases with consideration of intersolubility & interface

Microstructure, especially the role of phase connectivity

Fabrication approaches, especially net-shape consolidation

Assessment of typical properties, testing techniques & industry standards

Design & trade-off decisions involved in optimization, including cost

Applications, both those that have matured and some emerging prospects.

The reader may have little appreciation for how particulate composites are literally everywhere. Examples include new wear resistant consumer products(Apple watch), longer lasting automotive tires with reduced rolling resistance(Yokohama tires), and new diamond heat sinks for computers(Element Six substrates). Particulate composites also form critical components in applications such as magnets, dental fillings, brakes, darts, bio-implants, & cutting tools. Particulate composites are a multi-billion dollar industry, and can be a cost-effective solution ripe for innovation and continued rapid growth. For the engineer, the wide range of particulate composite formulation and property combinations offers the ability to design for a variety of application and provides ample opportunity for innovation.

Particulate Composites: Fundamentals & Applications is ideal for use in a one-semester eng. course at tl“*