Ceramic materials are widely used as components in a great variety of applications. They are attractive due to their good high temperature strength, high wear resistance, good corrosion restistance and other special physical properties. Their major drawback is their brittleness and the large scatter of their mechanical properties. This book describes failure phenomena in ceramic materials under mechanical loading, methods for determining the material properties, and the principles that one should apply when selecting a material. The fracture-mechanical and statistical principles and their use...

Keramische Werkstoffe gewinnen zunehmend an Bedeutung im Maschinenbau und in der Verfahrenstechnik aufgrund ihrer guten Hochtemperaturfestigkeit, ihres hohen Verschleisswiderstandes, der guten Korrosionsbestandigkeit und wegen spezieller physikalischer Eigenschaften. Ihr grosser Nachteil ist die Sprodigkeit und die grosse Streuung der mechanischen Eigenschaften. Das Buch beschreibt die Versagensphanomene keramischer Werkstoffe unter mechanischer Belastung, die Methoden zur Ermittlung von Werkstoffkennwerten und die Prinzipien der Werkstoffauswahl sowie der Dimensionierung von Bauteilen....

Ceramic materials are widely used as components in a great variety of applications. They are attractive due to their good high temperature strength, high wear resistance, good corrosion restistance and other special physical properties. Their major drawback is their brittleness and the large scatter of their mechanical properties. This book describes failure phenomena in ceramic materials under mechanical loading, methods for determining the material properties, and the principles that one should apply when selecting a material. The fracture-mechanical and statistical principles and their use...