Engineering Ceramics: Fabrication Science and Technology

1. Plasma Synthesis and Processing of Ultra-Fine Ceramic Powders 2. The Rheology and Defects of Fibre Loaded Ceramic Extrudates 3. Production of X-Phase and Mullite/X-Phase Ceramic Powders 4. Modelling of Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis Reactions 5. Microwave Sintering of Advanced Ceramics 6. Applications from Temperature Profile Control During Microwave Sintering 7. Planar Ceramic Capacitor Arrays: Aspects of Manufacturing and Processing 8. Advances in PTC Thermometries Technology 9. The Mechanical Behaviour of Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors — Applied Stresses and Testing Techniques 10. Fabrication of Composite Ceramics Using a Dry Mixing Process 11. Sol-Gel Fabrication of CMCs 12. Ceramic Materials Based on Alumina-Chromia-Mullite Compositions 13. High-Temperature Advanced Ceramic Coatings for Carbon-Carbon Fibre Composites 14. Coating of Single Crystal Alumina Fibres with Zirconia Sols 15. Co-precipitated Zirconia-Hafnia Powders 16. Nitrogen Stabilization of Tetragonal Zirconias 17. Properties of Electrofused Yttria TZP Powders 18. Grain Boundary Modification of Ce-TZP by a Small Alumina Addition 19. Compaction and Sintering of Toughened Zirconia Ceramics 20. Influence of the Addition of Solid Solution MgO on the Microstructure of Ce[1]TZP 21. The Formation of AI2O3/AI Composites by Oxidation 22. Oxidation of Silicon Powder: its Significance for the Strength of Reaction Bonded Silicon Nitride 23. Fabrication of Nitrogen Ceramics with Low Temperature-Coefficients of Permittivity 24. Gas Pressure Sintering of Silicon Nitride: The Influence of Additive Content and Sintering Parameters on Density 25. Binder-Free Silicon Nitride — A Self-Strengthening Phenomenon 26. Hot Isostatic Pressing of Silicon Nitride and Silicon Carbide using Glass Encapsulation

D. P. THOMPSON Materials Division, Department of Mechanical Materials & Manufacturing Engineering, The University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

This 50th volume in the British Ceramics Proceedings series includes papers presented at a meeting of the Basic Science Section held in Manchester, UK in December 1991.