Non-Oxide Materials: Applications and Engineering

Abstract

The advanced ceramics of yesteryear, specifically the non-oxide materials, have become fully commercialized in several applications where long life, improved performance, unique design capability and cost advantages have been explicitly utilized. Exploiting the advantages of their unique properties combined with the availability of complex shapes, several industries such as mining and metallurgical, paper and pulp, commodity and specialty chemicals, mechanical machinery, food processing, electronics, semiconductor processing, aerospace, defense and medical device manufacturing have discovered the unique benefits of these technical ceramics (RCG/Hagler, Bailly, Inc., 1990; Schwartz, 1992).