1st Edition

Advances in the Characterisation of Ceramics

By Robert Freer Copyright 1997
260 Pages
by CRC Press

This book is issue 57 of the British Ceramic Proceedings and covers development in scanning probe microscopies, electron, ion and photon based spectroscopies, structure imaging, analysis and atomic co-ordination, mechanical evaluation of surfaces, and characterisation of polishing damage.

Foreword; Advances in Image Analysis Techniques for Ceramics; Characterisation of Corrosion Mechanics in Refractories by Post-Mortem Microstructural Analysis; Transmission Electron Microscopy of the Antiferroelectric-Ferroelectric Phase Boundary in the (Pbi_xBax) (Zri_xTix) 0 3 Solid Solution; Conductive Mode Microscopy of Interfacial Structures in Zinc Oxide Based Ceramics; Analysis of Grain Boundary Electrical Properties in Positive Temperature Coefficient of Resistance Barium Titanate using Resistive Contrast Imaging; The SPM and XPS Characterisation of the Corrosion Resistance of Glasses; Determination of Zeta Potentials by Particle Electrophoresis and Streaming Potential Methods; Development of Structure in Baria-Alumina Ceramics; Neutron Diffraction Measurements of Thermal Residual Microstresses in Ceramic Particle Reinforced Alumina; Characterisation of Metal/Ceramic Interfaces by Neutron Reflection; Determination of the Structures of Ba-Ln-Ti-O Microwave Dielectric Ceramics using Synchrotron Hogh Resolution X-ray Diffraction; Beyond the Tolerance Factor: Harnessing X-ray and Neutron Diffraction Data for the Compositional Design of Perovskite Ceramics Combined Techniques for the Study of Glass Structure; A Comparison of Agglomerate Strength Testing Techniques; The Effect of Absolute Pressure on the Yield Stress and Shear Stress Behaviour of Ceramic Pastes; Evaluation of Lapping and Polishing Damage in Brittle Materials by Quantitative Acoustic Microscopy; Evaluation of Surface Mechanical Properties of Brittle Materials via Hertzian Indentation; Dielectric Property Measurements for Ceramic Processing; Dielectric Non-Linearity in Hard Piezoelectric Ceramics; Microstructure of Novel Lithium-Doped SrTiCU Internal Boundary Layer Capacitors; Thermal Analysis Used in the Study of DSP Materials; Abstracts, Confocal Scanning Laser Microscopy Studies of Sub-Surface Fracture in Ceramics and Ceramic Matrix Composites; Characterisation of Chemically Modified Polymeric Precursors for Si3N4/SiC Composites; MAS-NMR Investigation of Silicon Oxocarbide Nanopowders Synthetised by IR -Aerosol Interaction;15-N NMR Studies of Oxynitride Ceramics and Glasses; Neutron Diffraction Determination of Residual Stresses inAI2O3/S1C Ceramic Nanocomposites; Crack Healing in a Silicon Nitride Ceramic; High Temperature Creep and Fatigue Behaviour of Mullite Ceramics; Fracture and Growth of Indentation Cracks in Poled and Unpoled PZT; Author Index, Subject Index

Biography

R. Freer, Manchester Materials Science Centre University of Manchester! UMIST, UK. Assisted by Brian Derby, Oxford University and M. H. Lewis, Warwick University.