Corrosion, Wear, Fatigue, and Reliability of Ceramics, Volume 29, Issue 3

Introduction.

CORROSION.

Corrosion Resistance of Ceramics in Vaporous and Boiling Sulfuric Acid (C.A. Lewinsohn, H. Anderson, M. Wilson, T. Lillo, and A. Johnson).

Thermocouple Interactions during Testing of Melt Infiltrated Ceramic Matrix Composites (G. Ojard, G. Morscher, Y. Gowayed, U. Santhosh, J. Ahmaad, R. Miller, and R. John).

Oxidation Resistance of Pressureless-Sintered Sic-AIN-Re₂O₃ Composites Obtained without Powder Bed (G. Magnani, F. Antolini, L. Beaulardi, F. Burgio, and C. Mingazzini).

Characterization of the Re-oxidation Behavior of Anode-Supported SOFCs (Manuel Ettler, Norbert H. Menzler, Hans Peter Buchkremer, Detlev Stover).

Healing Behavior of Machining Cracks in Oxide-Based Composite Containing Sic Particles (Toshio Osada, Wataru Nakao, Koji Takahashi, and Kotoji Ando).

Effects of Oxidation on the Mechanical Properties of Pressureless-Sintered SiC-AIN-Y₂O₃ Composites Obtained without Powder Bed (G. Magnani, L. Beaulardi, E. Trentini).

Fiber Push Out Testing Before and After Exposure: Results for an MI SiC/SiC Composite (G. Ojard, L. Riester, R. Trejo, R. Annis, Y. Gowayed, G. Morscher, K. An, R. Miller, and R. John).

New Ceramics Surface Reinforcing Treatment using a Combination of Crack-Healing and Electron Beam Irradiation (Wataru Nakao, Youhei Chiba, Kotoji Ando, Keisuke Iwata, and Yoshitake Nishi).

Effect of Si₃N₄ on the instability of Li₂O-Containing Celsian in the BAS/Si₃N₄ Composites (Kuo-Tong Lee).

FATIGUE, WEAR, AND CREEP.

Rolling Contact Fatigue Properties and Fracture Resistance for Silicon Nitride Ceramics with Various Microstructures (Hiroyuki Miyazaki, Wataru Kanematsu, Hideki Hyuga, Yu-ichi Yoshizawa, Kiyoshi Hirao and Tatsuki Ohji).

Fretting Fatigue of Engineering Ceramics (Thomas Schalk, Karl-Heinz Lang, and Detlef Lohe).

Investigation into Cyclic Frequency Effects on Fatigue Behavior of an Oxide/Oxide Composite (Shankar Mall and Joon-Mo Ahn).

Friction and Wear Behavior of AlBC Composites (Ellen Dubensky, Robert Newman, Aleksander J. Pyzik, and Amy Wetzel).

Creep of Silicon Nitride Observed In Situ with Neutron Diffraction (G.A. Swift).

Hydrothermal Oxidation of Silicon Carbide and Its Bearing on Wet Wear Mechanisms (K.G. Nickel, V. Presser, 0. Krummhauer, A. Kailer, and R. Wirth)

RELIABILITY, NDE, AND FRACTOGRAPHY.

Probabilistic Design Optimization and Reliability Assessment of High Temperature Thermoelectric Devices (O.M. Jadaan and A.A. Wereszczak).

Development of a New Computational Method for Solving lnhomogeneous and Ultra Large Scale Model (H. Serizawa, A. Kawahara, S. ltoh and H. Murakawa).

Optical Methods for Nondestructive Evaluation of Subsurface Flaws in Silicon Nitride Ceramics (J.G. Sun, Z.P. Liu, Z.J. Pei, N.S.L. Phillips, and J.A. Jensen).

Fractographic Analysis of Miniature Theta Specimens (George D. Quinn).

Author Index.