Mechanical Properties and Performance of Engineering Ceramics and Composites VI, Volume 32, Issue 2 [Hardcover]

This book is a collection of papers from The American Ceramic Society's 35th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, held in Daytona Beach, Florida, January 23-28, 2011. This issue includes papers presented in the Mechanical Behavior and Performance of Ceramics & Composites Symposium on topics such as processing-microstructure properties correlations; fracture mechanics, modeling and testing; tribological properties; applications; and processing.Preface ix

Introduction xi

COMPOSITES: FIBERS, MATRICES, INTERFACES, AND APPLICATIONS

Oxide Fiber Coatings for Silicon Carbide Ceramic Matrix Composites 3
Emmanuel E. Boakye, Pavel S. Mogilevsky, T. A. Parthasarathy, Randall S. Hay, Michael K. Cinibulk, and M. Ahrens

Transmission Electron Microscopy of Rare-Earth Orthophosphate Fiber-Matrix Interphases that Deform by Transformation Plasticity During Fiber Push-Out 15
R. S. Hay, G. E. Fair, E. E. Boakye, P. Mogilevsky, T. A. Parthasarathy, M. Ahrens, and T. J. Godar

Processing of Oxide/Oxide Composites for Gas Turbine Applications Based on Braiding Technique (OXITEX) 23
Christian Wilhelmi, Thays Machry, Ralf Knoche, and Dietmar Koch

ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF CERAMICS AND COMPOSITES

Relationships Between Fiber Strength, Passive Oxidation and Scale Crystallization Kinetics of Hi-Nicalon-S SiC Fibers 39
R. S. Hay, G. E. Fair, R. Bouffioux, E. Urban, J. Morrow, A. Hart, and M. Wilson

FRACTURE MECHANICS, MODELING, AND MECHANICAL TESTING

Specimen Stress Equilibrium in Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar Tests of Ceramics at High Strain Rate 55
Jianming Yuan, Jan Ma, and Geoffrey E.B. Tan

l³ï