Handbook of Ceramic Composites

Dr. Narottam Bansal is a Senior Research Scientist in the Ceramics Branch, Materials and Structures Division, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH. After receiving his Ph. D. in 1973, he held post-doctoral research assignments in Canada and USA. He has carried out research in a number of areas: solid oxide fuel cells, thermal and environmental barrier coatings, fiber-reinforced ceramic matrix composites for high-temperature structural applications in turbine engines, high-temperature superconductors, sol-gel and combustion processing, refractory glass-ceramics, kinetics of phase transformations, IR-transmitting materials, electroanalytical techniques, ionic diffusion in melts. He has been team leader of a number of technical teams at NASA. Dr. Bansal is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society. He is recipient of NASA’s Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievements, R & D 100 Award, Turning Goals into reality Award, and Hind Rattan Award. He has also received numerous Innovative Technology Development Awards and Tech Brief Awards from NASA and his biography has been included in more than 30 Who’s Who. So far, he has organized 31 International Symposia and edited 23 Conference proceedings. He is author/co-author of 4 books, 6 invited book chapters, 3 review articles, 8 NASA Tech Briefs, and 215 research papers. He has been awarded seven U.S. Patents, so far. Dr. Bansal has been a member of the Technical Committees of International Commission on Glass and International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry. He has also served on the advisory boards of a number of international conferences.

Ceramic Fibers.- Oxide Fibers.- Non-oxide (Silicon Carbide) Fibers.- Non-oxide/Non-oxide Composites.- Chemical Vapor Infiltrated SiC/SiC Composites (CVI SiC/SiC).- SiC/SiC Composites for 1200°C and Above.- Silicon Melt Infiltrated Ceramic Composites (HiPerComp™).- Carbon Fibre Reinforced Silicon Carbide Composites (C/SiC, C/C-SiC).- Silicon Carbide Fiber-Reinforced Silicon Nitride Composites.- MoSi2-Base Composites.- Ultra High Temperature Ceramic Composites.- Non-oxide/Oxide Composites.- SiC Fiber-Reinforced Celsian Composites.- In situ Reinforced Silicon Nitride — Barium Aluminosilicate Composite.- Silicon Carbide and Oxide Fiber Reinforced Alumina Matrix Composites Fabricated Via Directed Metal Oxidation.- SiC Whisker Reinforced Alumina.- Mullite-SiC Whisker and Mullite-ZrO2-SiC Whisker Composites.- Nextel™ 312/Silicon Oxycarbide Ceramic Composites.- Oxide/Oxide Composites.- Oxide-Oxide composites.- WHIPOX All Oxide Ceramic Matrix Composites.- Alumina-Reinforced Zirconia Composites.- Glass and Glass-Ceramic Composites.- Continuous Fibre Reinforced Glass and Glass-Ceramic Matrix Composites.- Dispersion-Reinforced Glass and Glass-Ceramic Matrix Composites.- Glass-Containing Composite Materials. Alternative Reinforcement Concepts.