Ceramics I
4 points * 2 lectures per week plus tutorials * Second semester * Clayton
Introduction to ceramics: classification and structures of ceramics, clay minerals, silicates and silica. Ceramics processing, solid and liquid phases sintering, pressure sintering, sintering maps. Glass formation and glass ceramics. Properties of ceramic materials: elasticity, plastic deformation, microstructural dependence of mechanical properties. Thermal, electrical and optical properties.
Recommended texts
Grimshaw R W Chemistry and physics of clays 4th edn, Benn, 1961
Kingery W D and others Introduction to ceramics 2nd edn, Wiley, 1976