Physical Ceramics
Principles for Ceramic Science and Engineering

Yet-Ming Chiang (Author), Dunbar P. Birnie (Author), W. David Kingery (Author)

9780471598732, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 4 July 1996

544 pages
24.4 x 16.2 x 3.6 cm, 0.894 kg

Ceramics are in many ways the most challenging of engineering materials. This book introduces readers to the hierarchy of structures in ceramic materials, especially to the relationship between structure, at its many levels, and physical properties.

Structure of Ceramics.

Defects in Ceramics.

Mass and Electrical Transport.

Phase Equilibria.

Microstructure.

Index.

Subject Areas: Mechanical engineering & materials [TG]