Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics (eBook)

William G. Fahrenholtz, PhD, is Professor of Ceramic Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals and holds four U.S. patents. Eric J. Wuchina, PhD, is currently a Senior Materials Research Engineer at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division and program officer in the Office of Naval Research with responsibility for ultra-high temperature materials. He has authored over 25 publications, 80 presentations (12 invited) and 4 patents. Bill Lee, DPhil, is Professor of Ceramics, founding Director of the Centre for Advanced Structural Ceramics (CASC) and Director of the Centre for Nuclear Engineering at Imperial College London. He has over 350 publications, including 4 books for which he is lead or co-author, and has supervised 52 students to PhD completion. Yanchun Zhou, PhD, is Deputy Director of advanced composite laboratory Aerospace Research Institute of Materials and Processing Technology. Dr. Zhou has authored or co-authored more than 300 publications in peer-reviewed journals, and holds 36 China patents.

Acknowledgments ix

Contributors List xi

1 Introduction 1
William G. Fahrenholtz, Eric J. Wuchina, William E. Lee, and Yanchun Zhou

2 A Historical Perspective on Research Related to Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics 6
William G. Fahrenholtz

3 Reactive Processes for Diboride-Based Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics 33
Guo-Jun Zhang, Hai-Tao Liu, Wen-Wen Wu, Ji Zou, De-Wei Ni, Wei-Ming Guo, Ji-Xuan Liu, and Xin-Gang Wang

4 First-Principles Investigation on the Chemical Bonding and Intrinsic Elastic Properties of Transition Metal Diborides TMB2 (TM=Zr, Hf, Nb, Ta, and Y) 60
Yanchun Zhou, Jiemin Wang, Zhen Li, Xun Zhan, and Jingyang Wang

5 Near-Net-Shaping of Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics 83
Carolina Tallon and George V. Franks

6 Sintering and Densification MECHANISMS of Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics 112
Diletta Sciti, Laura Silvestroni, Valentina Medri, and Frédéric Monteverde

7 U HTC Composites for Hypersonic Applications 144
Anish Paul, Jon Binner, and Bala Vaidhyanathan

8 Mechanical Properties of Zirconium-Diboride Based UHTCs 167
Eric W. Neuman and Greg E. Hilmas

9 Thermal Conductivity of ZrB2 and HfB2 197
Gregory J. K. Harrington and Greg E. Hilmas

10 Deformation and Hardness of UHTCs as a Function of Temperature 236
J. Wang and L. J. Vandeperre

11 Modeling and Evaluating the Environmental Degradation of UHTCs under Hypersonic Flow 267
Triplicane A. Parthasarathy, Michael K. Cinibulk and Mark Opeka

12 Tantalum Carbides: Their Microstructures and Deformation Behavior 291
Gregory B. Thompson and Christopher R. Weinberger

13 Titanium Diboride 316
Brahma Raju Golla, Twisampati Bhandari, Amartya Mukhopadhyay, and Bikramjit Basu

14 Th e Group IV Carbides and Nitrides 361
Eric J. Wuchina and Mark Opeka

15 Nuclear Applications for Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics and MAX Phases 391
William E. Lee, Edoardo Giorgi, Robert Harrison, Alexandre Maître, and Olivier Rapaud

16 UHTC-Based Hot Structures: Characterization, Design, and On-Ground/In-Flight Testing 416
Davide Alfano, Roberto Gardi, Luigi Scatteia, and Antonio Del Vecchio

Index 437