Jonathan Salem & Edwin Fuller 
Corrosion, Wear, Fatigue, and Reliability of Ceramics, Volume 29, Issue 3 [PDF ebook] 

This volume provides a one-stop resource, compiling current research on the behavior and reliability of ceramic macro and micro scale systems. It is a collection of papers from The American Ceramic Society s 32nd International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, January 27-February 1, 2008. Topics include Design and Testing Challenges for Ceramic Joints; Structural Design, Testing and Life Prediction of Monolithic and Composite Components; Mechanical Behavior, Design, and Reliability of Small Scale Systems; Environmental Effects on Mechanical Properties; and more. This is a valuable reference for researchers in ceramics engineering.

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Preface.

Introduction.

CORROSION.

Corrosion Resistance of Ceramics in Vaporous and Boiling
Sulfuric Acid (C.A. Lewinsohn, H. Anderson, M. Wilson, T. Lillo,
and A. Johnson).

Thermocouple Interactions during Testing of Melt
Infiltrated Ceramic Matrix Composites (G. Ojard, G. Morscher,
Y. Gowayed, U. Santhosh, J. Ahmaad, R. Miller, and R. John).

Oxidation Resistance of Pressureless-Sintered
Sic-AIN-Re2O3 Composites Obtained without
Powder Bed (G. Magnani, F. Antolini, L. Beaulardi, F. Burgio, and
C. Mingazzini).

Characterization of the Re-oxidation Behavior of Anode-Supported
SOFCs (Manuel Ettler, Norbert H. Menzler, Hans Peter Buchkremer,
Detlev Stover).

Healing Behavior of Machining Cracks in Oxide-Based Composite
Containing Sic Particles (Toshio Osada, Wataru Nakao, Koji
Takahashi, and Kotoji Ando).

Effects of Oxidation on the Mechanical Properties of
Pressureless-Sintered Si C-AIN-Y2O3 Composites
Obtained without Powder Bed (G. Magnani, L. Beaulardi, E.
Trentini).

Fiber Push Out Testing Before and After Exposure: Results for an
MI Si C/Si C Composite (G. Ojard, L. Riester, R. Trejo, R.
Annis, Y. Gowayed, G. Morscher, K. An, R. Miller, and R.
John).

New Ceramics Surface Reinforcing Treatment using a Combination
of Crack-Healing and Electron Beam Irradiation (Wataru Nakao,
Youhei Chiba, Kotoji Ando, Keisuke Iwata, and Yoshitake Nishi).

Effect of Si3N4 on the instability of
Li2O-Containing Celsian in the
BAS/Si3N4 Composites (Kuo-Tong Lee).

FATIGUE, WEAR, AND CREEP.

Rolling Contact Fatigue Properties and Fracture Resistance for
Silicon Nitride Ceramics with Various Microstructures (Hiroyuki
Miyazaki, Wataru Kanematsu, Hideki Hyuga, Yu-ichi Yoshizawa,
Kiyoshi Hirao and Tatsuki Ohji).

Fretting Fatigue of Engineering Ceramics (Thomas Schalk,
Karl-Heinz Lang, and Detlef Lohe).

Investigation into Cyclic Frequency Effects on Fatigue Behavior
of an Oxide/Oxide Composite (Shankar Mall and Joon-Mo Ahn).

Friction and Wear Behavior of Al BC Composites (Ellen Dubensky,
Robert Newman, Aleksander J. Pyzik, and Amy Wetzel).

Creep of Silicon Nitride Observed In Situ with Neutron
Diffraction (G.A. Swift).

Hydrothermal Oxidation of Silicon Carbide and Its Bearing on Wet
Wear Mechanisms (K.G. Nickel, V. Presser, 0. Krummhauer, A. Kailer,
and R. Wirth)

RELIABILITY, NDE, AND FRACTOGRAPHY.

Probabilistic Design Optimization and Reliability Assessment of
High Temperature Thermoelectric Devices (O.M. Jadaan and A.A.
Wereszczak).

Development of a New Computational Method for Solving
lnhomogeneous and Ultra Large Scale Model (H. Serizawa, A.
Kawahara, S. ltoh and H. Murakawa).

Optical Methods for Nondestructive Evaluation of Subsurface
Flaws in Silicon Nitride Ceramics (J.G. Sun, Z.P. Liu,
Z.J. Pei, N.S.L. Phillips, and J.A. Jensen).

Fractographic Analysis of Miniature Theta Specimens (George D.
Quinn).

Author Index.

Over de auteur

Jonathan Salem is a Materials Research Engineer at NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, OH. He received a Ph D in Mechanical engineering from the University of Washington and has authored or co-authored over 60 archival publications, over 70 proceedings publications, and four national and international standards on mechanics of ceramics. He is a fellow of American Society for Testing and Materials and received a NASA Manned Spaced Flight Awareness Award for work on ceramic bearings for the Space Shuttle Main Engine Turbo-pump. In 2004, he received the Richard M. Fulrath Award from the American Ceramic Society for development of technical standards for design of structural ceramics.