Andrew Gyekenyesi & Waltraud M. Kriven 
Developments in Strategic Materials and Computational Design II, Volume 32, Issue 10 [PDF ebook] 

This book is a collection of papers from The American Ceramic Society’s 35th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, held in Daytona Beach, Florida, January 23-28, 2011. This issue includes papers presented in the Thermal Management Materials and Technologies; Advanced Sensor Technology; Geopolymers; and Computational Design, Modeling, and Simulation of Ceramics and Composites symposia.

Table of Content

Preface ix

Introduction xi

GEOPOLYMERS AND OTHER INORGANIC POLYMERS

Effect of External and Internal Calcium in Fly Ash on Geopolymer
Formation 3

Kiatsuda Somna and Walairat Bumrongjaroen

Synthesis and Thermal Properties of Fly-Ash Based Geopolymer
Pastes and Mortars 17

Ch. Panagiotopoulou, A. Asprogerakas, G. Kakali, and S.
Tsivilis

Mechanical Response of Discontinuous Filament PVA Fiber
Reinforced Geopolymers 29

Benjamin Varela and Jeffrey W. Rogers

Microwave Enhanced Drying and Firing of Geopolymers 35

Tyler A Gubb, Inessa Baranova, Shawn M. Allan, Morgana L. Fall,
Holly S. Shulman, and Waltraud M. Kriven

Geopolymerization of Red Mud and Rice Husk Ash and Potentials of
the Resulting Geopolymeric Products for Civil Infrastructure
Applications 45

Jian He and Guoping Zhang

The Effect of Addition of Pozzolanic Tuff on Geopolymers
53

Hani Khoury, Islam Al Dabsheh, Faten Slaty, Yousef Abu Salha,
Hubert Rahier, Muayad Esaifan, and Jan Wastiels

Bottom Ash-Based Geopolymer Materials: Mechanical and
Environmental Properties 71

R. Onori, J. Will, A. Hoppe, A. Polettini, R. Pomi, and A. R.
Boccaccini

Production of Geopolymers from Untreated Kaolinite 83

H. Rahier, M. Esaifan, I. Aldabsheh, F. Slatyi, H. Khoury, and
J. Wastiels

Phosphate Geopolymers 91

Arun S. Wagh

THERMAL MANAGEMENT MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGIES

3-Dimensional Modeling of Graphitic Foam Heat Sink 107

Adrian Bradu and Khairul Alam

Enhancement of Heat Capacity of Molten Salt Eutectics using
Inorganic Nanoparticles for Solar Thermal Energy Applications
119

Donghyun Shin and Debjyoti Banerjee

Enhancement of Heat Capacity of Nitrate Salts using Mica
Nanoparticles 127

Seunghwan Jung and Debjyoti Banerjee

Enhanced Viscosity of Aqueous Silica Nanofluids 139

Byeongnam Jo and Debjyoti Banerjee

Pumping Power of 50/50 Mixtures of Ethylene Glycol/Water
Containing Si C Nanoparticles 147

Jules L. Routbort, Dileep Singh, Elena V. Timofeeva, Wenhua Yu,
David M. France, and Roger K. Smith

COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN

Characterization of Non Uniform Veneer Layer Thickness
Distribution on Curved Substrate Zirconia Ceramics using X-Ray
Micro-Tomography 155

M. Allahkarami, H. A. Bale, and J. C. Hanan

Computational Study of Wave Propagation in Second-Order
Nonlinear Piezoelectric Media 165

David A. Hopkins and George A. Gazonas

Impact of Material and Architecture Model Parameters on the
Failure of Woven CMCS via the Multiscale Generalized Method of
Cells 175

Kuang Liu, Aditi Chattopadhyay, and Steven M. Arnold

Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulation of Oxygen and Cation Diffusion in
Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia 193

Brian Good

ADVANCED SENSOR TECHNOLOGY

Nano-Calorimeter Platform for Explosive Sensing 209

Seok-Won Kang, Nicholas Niedbalski, Mathew R Lane, and Debjyoti
Banerjee

Polyaniline-Silica Nanocomposite: Application in
Electrocatalysis of Acetylthiocholine 221

Prem C. Pandey, Vandana Singh, and S. Kumari

Electrochemical Sensing of Dopamine over Polyindole-Composite
Electrode 235

Prem C. Pandey, Dheeraj S. Chauhan, and S. Kumari

Author Index 245

About the author

Waltraud M. Kriven, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, USA.

Andrew Gyekenyesi, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland Ohio, USA.

Jingyang Wang, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHINA.