Preface ix List of Contributors xiii PART 1 MATERIALS DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO MATERIALS BY DESIGN INCLUDING A DYNAMIC STRESS ENVIRONMENT 3 James W. McCauley 2 CUSTOM MECHANICAL STRENGTH TEST SPECIMENS FOR BRITTLE MATERIALS AND THEIR COMPONENTS 29 Andrew A. Wereszczak 3 APPLICABILITY OF PROBABILISTIC ANALYSES TO ASSESS THE STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY OF MATERIALS AND COMPONENTS FOR SOLID-OXIDE FUEL CELLS 46 Edgar Lara-Curzio, Miladin Radovic, and Claire R. Luttrell 4 FAILURE OF ION-CONDUCTING MATERIALS BY INTERNAL PRECIPITATION UNDER ELECTROLYTIC CONDITIONS 59 Anil V. Virkar PART 2 ADVANCED CERAMICS AND CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES 5 SILICON NITRIDE CERAMICS 79 Stuart Hampshire 6 MICROSTRUCTURAL EVOLUTION AND MECHANICAL/THERMAL PROPERTIES OF SILICON NITRIDE CERAMICS 98 Tatsuki Ohji and Kiyoshi Hirao 7 SILICON NITRIDE CERAMICS FOR TRIBOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS 124 Junichi Tatami and Katsutoshi Komeya 8 SiC-MATRIX COMPOSITES: TOUGH CERAMICS FOR THERMOSTRUCTURAL APPLICATION IN DIFFERENT FIELDS 142 Roger R. Naslain 9 LIFE-LIMITING BEHAVIOR AND LIFE MANAGEMENT OF SiC-BASED COMPOSITES 160 Ronald J. Kerans 10 ADVANCED ENVIRONMENTAL BARRIER COATINGS FOR SiC/SiC CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITE TURBINE COMPONENTS 187 Dongming Zhu 11 CARBON COMPOSITES WITH CONTROLLED MICROSTRUCTURES 203 Lalit Mohan Manocha 12 THERMAL PROTECTION MATERIALS AND SYSTEMS: AN OVERVIEW 224 Sylvia M. Johnson PART 3 NOVEL CERAMIC PROCESSING AND INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGIES 13 PROGRESS IN ADVANCED CERAMICS RESEARCH ENABLED BY NOVEL PROCESSING AND MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES 247 Yoshinari Miyamoto 14 REACTION-FORMING OF CERAMIC COMPOSITES USING METALLIC ALUMINUM 261 Rolf Janssen, Nahum Travitzky, Peter Greil, and Nils Claussen 15 PROCESSING AND MORPHOLOGY CONTROL OF POROUS CERAMICS 276 Manabu Fukushima, Paolo Colombo, and Yu-ichi Yoshizawa 16 INTEGRATION CHALLENGES IN ALTERNATIVE AND RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS 291 Mrityunjay Singh, Rajiv Asthana, and Kun-Lin Lin 17 FREE FORM FABRICATION OF CERAMICS COMPONENTS BY THREE-DIMENSIONAL STEREOLITHOGRAPHY 330 Soshu Kirihara 18 JOINING AND INTEGRATION OF SILICON CARBIDE-BASED CERAMICS AND COMPOSITES FOR HIGH-TEMPERATURE STRUCTURAL APPLICATIONS 352 Michael C.
Halbig and Mrityunjay Singh PART 4 MULTIFUNCTIONAL CERAMICS 19 CURRENT TRENDS IN CERAMIC TECHNOLOGIES AND SYSTEMS 383 Alexander Michaelis, Michael Stelter, Hagen Klemm, Ingolf Voigt, and Ralf Kriegel 20 OXIDE CERAMICS: THE ROLE OF SURFACE AND GRAIN BOUNDARIES FOR RELIABLE FUNCTIONAL APPLICATIONS 415 Jose Arana Varela, Marcelo Ornaghi Orlandi, Eliana Navarro dos Santos Muccillo, and Reginaldo Muccillo 21 INTEGRATED STRATEGY TO DISCOVER COMPLEX CERAMICS WITH EXTREMELY LOW THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY 427 Jingyang Wang, Zhilin Tian, and Luchao Sun 22 CHEMICALLY BONDED PHOSPHATE CERAMICS: STABILIZATION OF SECONDARY WASTES STREAMS 445 Dileep Singh, Roopa Ganga, Jose Gaviria, and Yusuf Yusufoglu 23 PERSPECTIVES OF NANOSTRUCTURED METAL OXIDES AND THEIR HETEROSTRUCTURES IN PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER SPLITTING FOR SOLAR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION 457 Sanjay Mathur, Thomas Fischer, Yakup G¨on¨ull¨u, Myeongwhun Pyeon, and Meng Wang Index 497.