Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Contributors List xi
1 Introduction 1William G. Fahrenholtz, Eric J. Wuchina, William E. Lee, and Yanchun Zhou
2 A Historical Perspective on Research Related to Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics 6William G. Fahrenholtz
3 Reactive Processes for Diboride-Based Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics 33Guo-Jun Zhang, Hai-Tao Liu, Wen-Wen Wu, Ji Zou, De-Wei Ni, Wei-Ming Guo, Ji-Xuan Liu, and Xin-Gang Wang
4 First-Principles Investigation on the Chemical Bonding and Intrinsic Elastic Properties of Transition Metal Diborides TMB2 (TM=Zr, Hf, Nb, Ta, and Y) 60Yanchun Zhou, Jiemin Wang, Zhen Li, Xun Zhan, and Jingyang Wang
5 Near-Net-Shaping of Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics 83Carolina Tallon and George V. Franks
6 Sintering and Densification MECHANISMS of Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics 112Diletta Sciti, Laura Silvestroni, Valentina Medri, and Frédéric Monteverde
7 U HTC Composites for Hypersonic Applications 144Anish Paul, Jon Binner, and Bala Vaidhyanathan
8 Mechanical Properties of Zirconium-Diboride Based UHTCs 167Eric W. Neuman and Greg E. Hilmas
9 Thermal Conductivity of ZrB2 and HfB2 197Gregory J. K. Harrington and Greg E. Hilmas
10 Deformation and Hardness of UHTCs as a Function of Temperature 236J. Wang and L. J. Vandeperre
11 Modeling and Evaluating the Environmental Degradation of UHTCs under Hypersonic Flow 267Triplicane A. Parthasarathy, Michael K. Cinibulk and Mark Opeka
12 Tantalum Carbides: Their Microstructures and Deformation Behavior 291Gregory B. Thompson and Christopher R. Weinberger
13 Titanium Diboride 316Brahma Raju Golla, Twisampati Bhandari, Amartya Mukhopadhyay, and Bikramjit Basu
14 The Group IV Carbides and Nitrides 361Eric J. Wuchina and Mark Opeka
15 Nuclear Applications for Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics and MAX Phases 391William E. Lee, Edoardo Giorgi, Robert Harrison, Alexandre Maître, and Olivier Rapaud16 UHTC-Based Hot Structures: Characterization, Design, and On-Ground/In-Flight Testing 416Davide Alfano, Roberto Gardi, Luigi Scatteia, and Antonio Del Vecchio
Index 437