Mechanical Properties of Ceramics
Excerpt from Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Ceramics
Ceramics are frequently manufactured by a heating process which appears deceptively simple but which usually involves a number of competing reactions and transport processes occurring at different rates. Optimizing a particular property requires a starting composition and heat treatment Which produces the final composition and microstructure (usually denoted by the word character) needed for that property. In principle one should begin With the properties needed, determine the character required' from an understanding of the property character relationship, and design the processing from an understanding of the chemistry and mass transport which are involved. In practice the understanding of both areas is limited so that empirical procedures, guided by some degree of fundamental understanding, are generally used.
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