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Advances in Ceramic Matrix Composites

  • 3rd Edition - August 19, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: I M Low, Shibo Li, Chunfeng Hu
  • Language: English

Advanced ceramics and composite materials are increasingly being utilized as components in batteries, fuel cells, sensors, high-temperature electronics, membranes, and high-end bi… Read more

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Description

Advanced ceramics and composite materials are increasingly being utilized as components in batteries, fuel cells, sensors, high-temperature electronics, membranes, and high-end biomedical devices, in addition to their traditional use in seals, valves, implants, and high-temperature and wear components. In recent years, there has been substantial progress in the use of ceramic-matrix composites (CMCs), with new applications developing continually.

Advances in Ceramic-Matrix Composites, Third Edition, delivers an innovative approach focusing on the very latest advances, materials developments, and new applications.

These include new technologies that have emerged, such as additive manufacturing of ceramic-matrix composites (CMCs), the design of CMCs based on MAX-phase and ultrahigh-temperature ceramics (UHTCs), and the reinforcement of CMCs with graphene nanoplatelets. Similarly, new applications for CMCs have emerged for enhanced electromagnetic absorption and ionizing radiation shielding.

The specialized information contained in this book will be highly valuable for researchers and postgraduate students working in ceramic science, engineering, and ceramic composites technology and engineers and scientists in aerospace, energy, building and construction, biomedical, and automotive industries.

Key features

  • Provides detailed coverage of the processing, properties, and applications
  • Includes natural fiber-reinforced composites and geopolymers
  • Covers solid oxide fuel cells and solid-state energy conversion devices, such as batteries and supercapacitors
  • Covers new technologies such as additive manufacturing, MAX-phase and ultrahigh-temperature ceramics, and CMCs with graphene nanoplatelets
  • Covers new applications for CMCs for enhanced electromagnetic absorption and ionizing radiation shielding

Readership

Materials scientists, Materials engineers, Ceramics engineers, Mechanical engineers, Aerospace engineers, those working with ceramic materials in energy, building and construction, biomedical and automotive industries, Industrial R&D and manufactures, Postgraduate students in materials science and engineering, ceramics engineering, mechanical engineering, and aerospace engineering

Table of contents

1. Advances in ceramic matrix composites: an introduction
It (Jim) Meng Low
Part 1: Parts and Processing

2. Processing, properties and applications of ceramic matrix composites, SiCf/SiC: an overview
D. Ding

3. Nanoceramic matrix composites: types, processing and applications
Saikat Maitra

4. Silicon carbide-containing alumina nanocomposites: processing and properties
Dusan Galusek

5. Advances in the manufacture of ceramic matrix composites using infiltration techniques
Dmitri Kopeliovich

6. Heat treatment for strengthening silicon carbide ceramic matrix composites
Dusan Bucevac

7. Developments in hot pressing (HP) and hot isostatic pressing (HIP) of ceramic matrix composites
C. F. Hu

8. Hot pressing of tungsten carbide ceramic matrix composites
H.X. Qu

9. Strengthening alumina ceramic matrix nanocomposites using spark plasma sintering
J.L. Huang

10. Cold ceramics: Low-temperature processing of ceramics for applications in composites
Agnes Smith

11. High performance natural fiber-reinforced cement composites
It (Jim) Meng Low, A. Hakami and Faiz Shaikh

12. Recent progress in development for high-performance tungsten carbide-based composites: synthesis, characterization, and potential applications
Jianfeng Zhang Sr.
Part 2 - Properties

13. Understanding interfaces and mechanical properties of ceramic matrix composites
L. Li

14. Understanding the wear and tribological properties of ceramic matrix composites
C. Zhang

15. Advances in geopolymer composites with natural reinforcement
Thamer Alomayri

16. Advances in self-healing ceramic matrix composites
F. Rebillat

17. Self-crack-healing behavior in ceramic matrix composites
Toshio Osada
Part 3 - Applications

18. Geopolymer (aluminosilicate) composites: Synthesis, properties and applications
Kenneth J.D MacKenzie

19. Fibre-reinforced geopolymer composites (FRGCs) for structural applications
Faiz Shaikh

20. Ceramic matrix composites in fission and fusion energy applications
Yutai Katoh

21. The use of ceramic matrix composites for metal cutting applications
Jun Zhao

22. Cubic boron nitride-containing ceramic matrix composites for cutting tools
Jianfeng Zhang Sr.

23. Fabricating functionally graded ceramic micro-components using soft lithography
H. Hassanin

24. Ceramics in restorative dentistry
L. Yin

25. Resin-based ceramic matrix composite materials in dentistry
H. Mirmohammadi

26. Ceramics in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) for energy generation
X. Xu

27. MAX phase/ultra-high temperature ceramic composites
Laura Silvestroni and Jesus Gonzalez-Julian

28. An Overview of tungsten carbide coating by electro-discharge coating using ceramic composite tool
Anshuman Kumar Sahu

29. MAX phase ceramic matrix composites: processing, properties, and applications
Shibo Li

30. Recent developments, strategies and challenges of integrated computational methodologies in advanced ceramic materials
Haolin Li and Qi Dong

31. Ultra-high temperature ceramics composites: synthesis, microstructure, and properties
Xuanru Ren

32. Fabrication and Applications of SiCf/SiC Composites
Honglei Wang and Xingui Zhou

33. Dynamic Thermal Stability of Ternary Carbides and Nitrides
It (Jim) Meng Low

34. Microstructure-Property Relationships in Mullite Whisker Reinforced Alumina Composites
It (Jim) Meng Low

35. Structural Characterization of Graphene and Graphite Nanostructures
It (Jim) Meng Low

36. Infiltration Processing of Layer-Graded Alumina-Matrix Composites
It (Jim) Meng Low

37. Thermal Stability of Aluminium Titanate and Its Composites
It (Jim) Meng Low

Product details

  • Edition: 3
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 22, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editor

IL

I M Low

Professor I. M. Low is the current WA Branch President and Federal Secretary of the Australian Ceramic Society. Since 2008, he has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Australian Society. He is the recipient of the prestigious 1996 Joint Australasian Ceramic Society/Ceramic Society of Japan Ceramic Award for ceramics research and edited five books, along with authoring over 200 archival research papers. He also currently serves as an OzReader for the Australian Research Council to assess Laureate Fellowships and Discovery Projects proposals.
Affiliations and expertise
Curtin University, Australia

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