This course provides a review of all relevant issues concerning the processing and sintering of advanced ceramic materials - discussing powder preparation and characterization, colloidal and sol-gel techniques, powder consolidation and forming, sintering theory and practice, and microstructure evolution. The course shows the importance of each step, and the critical interconnections among the steps, in the overall fabrication of ceramics; focuses on the formation of ceramics by firing consolidated powders; reveals which ceramic manufacturing methods are easier to employ and why; covers the properties of colloidal suspension; elucidates the liquid-phase sintering and vitrification; describes the role of solid solution additives in the sintering of ceramics; considers the densification of amorphous materials that can crystallize during firing; and more.
Level Restrictions
Exclude: UG-Undergraduate
Crosslisted