Table of Contents
Preface vii Contributors ix
PART I DENSIFICATION 1
1 SINTERING: FUNDAMENTALS AND PRACTICE 3 Rajendra K. Bordia and Héctor 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
PART II 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
7 POLYMER PROCESSING OF CERAMICS 235 Emanuel Ionescu and Ralf Riedel
8 CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION OF STRUCTURAL CERAMICS AND COMPOSITES 271 Takashi Goto
9 CVI PROCESSING OF CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES 313 Andrea Lazzeri
10 REACTIVE MELT-INFILTRATION PROCESSING OF FIBER-REINFORCED CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES 351 Natalie Wali and J.-M. Yang
11 COMBUSTION SYNTHESIS: AN UPDATE 391 S. B. Bhaduri
PART III PHYSICAL METHODS 415
12 DIRECTIONAL SOLIDIFICATION 417 Víctor M. Orera and José I. Peña
13 SOLID FREE-FORM FABRICATION OF 3-D CERAMIC STRUCTURES 459 James E. Smay and Jennifer A. Lewis
14 MICROWAVE PROCESSING OF CERAMIC AND CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES 485 Cristina Leonelli and Paolo Veronesi
15 ELECTROPHORETIC DEPOSITION 517 Maria Cannio, Saša Novak, Laxmidhar Besra, and Aldo R. Boccaccini
16 PROCESSING OF CERAMICS BY PLASMA SPRAYING 551 Robert Vaßen
Index 567