2nd European Symposium on Engineering Ceramics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Ceramic Research Co-operation within the European Communities

   • J. G. Wurm

   Pages 1-6

3. Pre-standardization Studies as a Means of Helping the Development of Engineering Ceramics

   • Philippe Boch, Jean-Claude Glandus, F. Platon

   Pages 7-30

4. An Overview of the Movements in the Engineering Ceramics Area 1985–1987

   • J. Tirlocq, F. Cambier

   Pages 31-43

5. Protection Materials: Coatings for Thermal Barrier and Wear Resistance

   • Ingard Kvernes, Erich Lugscheider, Yngve Lindblom

   Pages 45-79

6. The Production of High-Grade Technical Ceramics

   • B. G. Newland

   Pages 81-97

7. Nondestructive Evaluation of Advanced Ceramics

   • K. Goebbels

   Pages 99-149

8. Non-Oxide Technical Ceramics

   • Heinrich Knoch

   Pages 151-169

9. Ceramic Matrix Composites

   • B. Cales

   Pages 171-202

10. Ceramics in Internal Combustion Engines

    • Jürgen Huber, Jürgen Heinrich

    Pages 203-228

11. Ceramic Heat Engine Programs in the USA

    • Richard C. Bradt

    Pages 229-240

12. Developments in the UK Engineering Ceramics Programmes

    • D. A. Parker, G. W. Meetham

    Pages 241-254

13. The Present Attitude towards High Technology Ceramics in Japan

    • Hiroshige Suzuki

    Pages 255-278

14. Back Matter

    Pages 279-285

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This volume contains the proceedings of the 2nd European Symposium on Engineering Ceramics held in London, 23-24 November 1987. The meeting was attended by almost 200 scientists and engineers, primarily drawn from industry, and the Sessions were chaired by Mr Eric Briscoe, past President of the Institute of Ceramics. Very effective symposium organisation was provided by IBC Technical Services Ltd. The engineering ceramics are a class of materials which has over some 50 years found well-established applications based on the materials' chemical stability and wear resistance. The last 20 years have seen intensified efforts to extend applications for these materials into areas traditionally occupied by metals, but in which the typical metallic weaknesses of wear, and of high temperature creep and oxidation, are now creating significant problems. These efforts have, however, in many cases been undermined on the one hand by the inherent ceramic weaknesses of brittleness and flaw sensitivity, and on the other by an inadequate understanding, and control, of the basic ceramic fabrication processes required for the low-cost mass production of relatively complex components. The positive results of the efforts of the last 20 years have been the development of a large new group of ceramic materials believed to possess intrinsic mechanical property advantages, of which the transformation toughened zirconias, and the ceramic matrix composites are good examples, together with improved powder production methods and powder shaping processes.

• Europe
• ceramics
• coating
• control
• engine
• heat engine
• material
• materials
• organization
• oxidation
• production
• protection
• research
• stability
• temperature

• Division of Ceramics, School of Materials, University of Leeds, UK

  F. L. Riley

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