Wiley.com
Print this page Share

Mechanical Properties of Ceramics, 2nd Edition

ISBN: 978-0-471-73581-6
Hardcover
496 pages
April 2009
List Price: US $168.50
Government Price: US $113.24
Enter Quantity:   Buy
Mechanical Properties of Ceramics, 2nd Edition (0471735817) cover image
This is a Print-on-Demand title. It will be printed specifically to fill your order. Please allow an additional 10-15 days delivery time. The book is not returnable.

A Comprehensive and Self-Contained Treatment of the Theory and Practical Applications of Ceramic Materials

When failure occurs in ceramic materials, it is often catastrophic, instantaneous, and total. Now in its Second Edition, this important book arms readers with a thorough and accurate understanding of the causes of these failures and how to design ceramics for failure avoidance. It systematically covers:

  • Stress and strain

  • Types of mechanical behavior

  • Strength of defect-free solids

  • Linear elastic fracture mechanics

  • Measurements of elasticity, strength, and fracture toughness

  • Subcritical crack propagation

  • Toughening mechanisms in ceramics

  • Effects of microstructure on toughness and strength

  • Cyclic fatigue of ceramics

  • Thermal stress and thermal shock in ceramics

  • Fractography

  • Dislocation and plastic deformation in ceramics

  • Creep and superplasticity of ceramics

  • Creep rupture at high temperatures and safe life design

  • Hardness and wear

  • And more

While maintaining the first edition's reputation for being an indispensable professional resource, this new edition has been updated with sketches, explanations, figures, tables, summaries, and problem sets to make it more student-friendly as a textbook in undergraduate and graduate courses on the mechanical properties of ceramics.

Related Titles

More By These Authors

Ceramics

by Larry L. Hench (Editor), Donald R. Ulrich (Editor)
by Robert H. Doremus
by LeRoy D. Hart (Editor), Esther Lense (Associate Editor)
Back to Top