CERAMICS AND COMPOSITES

PROCESSING METHODS

EDITED BY Narottam P. Bansal Aldo R. Boccaccini

The American Ceramic Society

WILEY A JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC., PUBLICATION

CONTENTS

Preface vii Contributors ix

P A R T I DENSIFICATION 1

1 SINTERING: FUNDAMENTALS AND PRACTICE 3 Rajendra K. Bordia and Hector Camacho-Montes

2 THE ROLE OF THE ELECTRIC CURRENT AND FIELD DURING PULSED ELECTRIC CURRENT SINTERING 43 K. Vanmeensel, A. Laptev, S. G. Huang, J. Vleugels, and O. Van der Biest

3 VISCOUS-PHASE SILICATE PROCESSING 75 Ralf Müller and Stefan Reinsch

P A R T I I CHEMICAL METHODS 145

4 COLLOIDAL METHODS 147 Rodrigo Moreno

5 PROCESSING AND APPLICATIONS OF SOL-GEL GLASS 183 Esther H. Lan and Bruce Dunn

6 GELCASTING OF CERAMIC BODIES 199 Katherine T. Faber and Noah O. Shanti

1 POLYMER PROCESSING OF CERAMICS 235 Emanuel lonescu and Ralf Riedel

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8 CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION OF STRUCTURAL CERAMICS AND COMPOSITES 271 Takashi Goto

9 CVI PROCESSING OF CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES 313 Andrea Lazzeri

1 0 REACTIVE MELT-INFILTRATION PROCESSING OF FIBER-REINFORCED CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES 351 Natalie Wali and J.-M. Yang

1 1 COMBUSTION SYNTHESIS: AN UPDATE 391 S. B. Bhaduri

P A R T I I I PHYSICAL METHODS 415

1 2 DIRECTIONAL SOLIDIFICATION 417 Victor M. Orera and Jose I. Pena

1 3 SOLID FREE-FORM FABRICATION OF 3-D CERAMIC STRUCTURES 459 James E. Smay and Jennifer A. J^ewis

1 4 MICROWAVE PROCESSING OF CERAMIC AND CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES 485 Cristina Leonelli and Paolo Veronesi

1 5 ELECTROPHORETIC DEPOSITION 517 Maria Cannio, Sasa Novak, Laxmidhar Besra, and Aldo R. Boccaccini

1 6 PROCESSING OF CERAMICS BY PLASMA SPRAYING 551 Robert Vaßen

Index 567