Advanced ceramics and composite materials are increasingly being utilized as components in batteries, fuel cells, sensors, high-temperature electronics, membranes, and high-end biomedical devices, in addition to their traditional use in seals, valves, implants, and high-temperature and wear components. In recent years, there has been substantial progress in the use of ceramic matrix composites (CMCs), with new applications developing continually. Advances in Ceramic Matrix Composites, Third Edition delivers an innovative approach focusing on the very latest advances, materials developments, and new applications. These include new technologies that have emerged such as additive manufacturing of ceramic-matrix composites (CMCs), the design of CMCs based on MAX-phase and ultra-high temperature ceramic (UHTC), and the reinforcement of CMCs with graphene nanoplatelets. Similarly, new applications for CMCs have emerged for enhanced electromagnetic absorption and ionizing radiation shielding. The specialized information contained in this book will be highly valuable for researchers and postgraduate students working in ceramic science, engineering and ceramic composites technology, and engineers and scientists in the aerospace, energy, building and construction, biomedical and automotive industries.
1.Advances in ceramic matrix composites: Introduction
2. Processing, properties and applications of ceramic matrix composites,
SiCf/SiC: An overview
3. Nanoceramic matrix composites: Types, processing, and applications
4. Al2O3-SiC nanocomposites: Preparation, microstructure, and properties
5. Advances in manufacture of ceramic matrix composites by infiltration
techniques
6. Manufacture of graded ceramic matrix composites by infiltration technique
7. Heat treatment for strengthening silicon carbide ceramic matrix
composites
8. Developments in hot pressing (HP) and hot isostatic pressing (HIP) of
ceramic matrix composites
9. Hot pressing of tungsten carbide ceramic matrix
composites
10. Strengthening alumina ceramic matrix nanocomposites using spark plasma
sintering
11. Cold ceramics: Low-temperature processing of ceramics for applications in
composites
12. High-performance natural fiberreinforced cement composites
13. Recent progress in development of high-performance tungsten carbide-based
composites: Synthesis, characterization, and potential applications
14. Double-A layered ceramics
15. Role of interfaces in mechanical properties of ceramic matrix composites
16. Using finite element analysis to understand the mechanical properties of
ceramic matrix composites
17. Understanding the wear and tribological properties of ceramic matrix
composites
18. Understanding and improving the thermal stability of layered ternary
carbides and nitrides
19. Advances in geopolymer composites with natural reinforcement
20. Advances in self-healing ceramic matrix composites
21. Self-crack-healing behavior in ceramic matrix composites
22. Geopolymer (aluminosilicate) composites: Synthesis, properties and
applications
23. Fibre-reinforced geopolymer composites (FRGCs) for structural
applications
24. Ceramic matrix composites in fission and fusion energy applications
25. The use of ceramic matrix composites for metal cutting applications
26. Cubic boron nitride-containing ceramic matrix composites for cutting
tools
27. Multilayer glassceramic composites for microelectronics: Processing and
properties
28. Microfabrication of components based on functionally graded materials
29. Ceramics in restorative dentistry
30. Resin-based ceramic matrix composite materials in dentistry
31. Ceramics in solid oxide fuel cells for energy generation
32. Review on 3D printing of ceramic-matrix composites
33. Additive manufacturing of ceramic matrix composite structures using laser
technology
34. MAX phase/ultra-high temperature ceramic composites
35. Functional ceramic-matrix composites
36. 2D Graphene and Graphene-Like Composites and Their Applications
37. Ceramic composites for dramatically enhanced electromagnetic absorbing
properties
38. MXene reinforced ceramic composites with sensing properties
Professor I. M. Low is the current WA Branch President and Federal Secretary of the Australian Ceramic Society. Since 2008, he has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Australian Society. He is the recipient of the prestigious 1996 Joint Australasian Ceramic Society/Ceramic Society of Japan Ceramic Award for ceramics research and edited five books, along with authoring over 200 archival research papers. He also currently serves as an OzReader for the Australian Research Council to assess Laureate Fellowships and Discovery Projects proposals.
