Preface ix Introduction xi PROCESSING The Effects of Heating Rate on Magnesia Doped Alumina Prepared bySPS 3 B. Apak, G. Goller, F. C. Sahin, and O. Yucel Effect of Coke Calcination Temperature on the Processing of Reaction Bonded Silicon Carbide 9 Rodrigo P. Silva, Claudio V. Rocha, Marysilvia F.
Costa, and Celio A. Costa Pressureless Sintering of Mullite-Ceria-Doped Zirconia-Silicon Carbide Composites 15 Barry A. Bender, Michael Vick, and Ming-Jen Pan The Role of Carbon in Processing Hot Pressed Aluminium Nitride Doped Silicon Carbide 27 N. Ur-rehman, P. Brown, and L. J. Vandeperre CHARACTERIZATION Microstructure and High-Temperature Properties of Si-B-C-N MA-Powders and Ceramic 37 Yu Zhou, Zhi-Hua Yang, De-Chang Jia, and Xiao-Ming Duan Influence of Water Quality on Corrosion of Multi-Oxide Engineering Ceramics 51 Marju Mannila and Antti Häkkinen The Effect of Load and Temperature on Hardness of ZrB2 Composites 59 J. Wang, F.
Giuliani, and L. J. Vandeperre Nano-lndentation Hardness Measurements as a Characterization Technique of SiC and Pyrolytic Carbon Layers of Experimental PBMR Coated Particles 69 I. J. van Rooyen, E. Nquma, J. Mahlangu, and J. H.
Neethling High Temperature Mechanical Loss of Nanostructured Yttria Stabilized Zirconia (3Y-TZP) Reinforced with Carbon Nanotubes 79 Mehdi Mazaheri, Daniele Mari, Robert Schaller, and Zhijian Shen The Influence of Nanosize Carbon Concentration on Mechanical Properties of RBSIC 87 Cristiane Evelise Ribeiro da Silva, Rosa Trejo, Sanghoon Shim, Edgar Lara-Curzio, and Celio A. Costa Si/SiC and Diamond Composites: Microstructure-Mechanical Properties Correlation 97 S. Salamone, R. Neill, and M. Aghajanian Mechanical Properties and Failure Criterion of Silicon-Based Joints 107 L. M. Nguyen, O. Gillia, Emmanuelle Rivière, and Dominique Leguillon Effect of Various SnAgTi-Alloys and Laser Induced Texturing on the Shear Strength of Laser Brazed SiC-Steel-Joints 119 I.
Südmeyer, M. Rohde, T. Fürst Characterization of Poled Single-Layer PZT for Piezo Stack in Fuel Injection System 127 Hong Wang, Tadashi Matsunaga, and Hua-Tay Lin Thermal Tomographie Imaging for Nondestructive Evaluation of Ceramic Composite Materials 137 J. G. Sun A More Comprehensive NDE: PCRT for Ceramic Components 145 Leanne Jauriqui and Lem Hunter FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITES Microstructure and Thermodynamic Descriptions of SiC-Based Ceramic Fibers 159 Géraldine Puyoo, Georges Chollon, René Pailler, and Francis Teyssandier Static Fatigue of Multifilament Tows at High Temperatures above 900°C 173 A. Laforèt and J. Lamon 3D Multiscale Modeling of the Mechanical Behavior of Woven Composite Materials 185 G. Couégnat, E.
Martin, and J. Lamon Mode I Interlaminar Fracture Toughness Testing of a Ceramic Matrix Composite 195 G. Ojard, T. Barnett, M. Dahlen, U. Santhosh, J. Ahmad, and R. Miller Comparative Study of Tensile Properties of Uni-Directional Single-Tow SiC-Matrix Composites Reinforced with Various Near-Stoichiometric SiC Fibers 207 Kazumi Ozawa, Yutai Katoh, Edgar Lara-Curzio, Lance L.
Snead, and Takashi Nozawa Foreign Object Damage in an N720/Alumina Oxide/Oxide Ceramic Matrix Composite 221 Sung R. Choi, David C. Faucett, and Donald J. Alexander Static Contact Damage in an N720/Alumina Oxide/Oxide Ceramic Matrix Composite with Reference to Foreign Object Damage 233 David C. Faucett, Donald J. Alexander, Sung R. Choi Effects of Environment on Creep Behavior of NEXTEL(tm)720/ Alumina-Mullite Ceramic Composite with ±45° Fiber Orientation at1200°C 245 M. Ozer and M.
B. Ruggles-Wrenn Fatigue Behavior of an Oxide/Oxide CMC under Combustion Environment 261 Shankar Mall and Andrew R. Nye EROSION AND WEAR Particle Erosion Wear Behavior of New Conceptual SiC/SiC Composites 275 Min-Soo Sun, Tatsuya Hinoki, and Akira Kohyama Threshold of Ring Crack Initiation on CVD-SiC under Particle Impact 285 Min-Soo Suh, Sang-Yeob Oh, Tatsuya Hinoki, Chang-Min Suh, and Akira Kohyama Advanced Ceramic-Steel Pairings under Permanent Slip for Dry Running Clutch Systems 295 Albert Albers and Michael Meid Development and Validation of Lubricated Multi-Disk Clutch Systems with Advanced Ceramics 309 Albert Albers, Johannes Bernhardt, and Sascha Ott MODELING Virtual Testing and Simulation of Multiple Cracking in Transverse Tows of Woven CMCs 319 Pierre Pineau, Guillaume Couégnat, and Jacques Lamon Isothermal ChemÌcal Vapor Infiltration Modeling by Random Walks in CMT 3D Images at Two Scales 329 G. L. Vignoles, I. Szelengowicz, W. Ros, C. Mulat, and C.
Germain Adsorption and Surface Diffusion of Oxygen on 3C and 2H-SÌC Polytypes: Numerical Studies 341 Junjie Wang, Litong Zhang, Qinfeng Zeng, and G. L. Vignoles Effective Surface Recession Laws for the Physico-Chemical Ablation of C/C Composite Materials 351 G. L. Vignoles, J. Lachaud, Y. Aspa, and M. Quintard Model of the Influence of Damage on the Thermal Properties of Ceramic Matrix Composites 361 Jalal El Yagoubi, Jacques Lamon, and Jean-Christophe Batsale Author Index 373.