ADVANCES IN CERAMICS RAW MATERIALS

Contents
Preface IX

Part 1 Topics in Characterization Techniques and Evaluation of Advanced Ceramic Materials 1

Chapter 1 On the Use of Photothermal Techniques as a Tool to Characterize Ceramic-Metal Materials 3

Chapter 2 Spectroscopic and Dielectric Characterization of Plasma Sprayed Titanates 19

Chapter 3 Thermal Diffusivity of Ceramics During Neutron Irradiation 39

Chapter 4 Luminescence Properties of AlN Ceramics and Its Potential Application for Solid State Dosimetry 59

Chapter 5 Non-Contact Measurements of the Apparent Density of Green Ceramics with Complex Shape 83

Chapter 6 Practical Methods for Crack Length Measurement and Fatigue Crack Initiation Detection Using

Ion-Sputtered Film and Crack Growth Characteristics in Glass and Ceramics 103

Chapter 7 Evolution of Crystallographic Structures and Phases in Micropyretically Formed Boron Rich Boron Carbide a New Material System 127

Chapter 8 Oxygen Isotope Exchange in Nanocrystal Oxides 139

Chapter 9 Lead Free BNBT Type Ceramics: A Useful Material for Sensors

and Ultrasound Applications 165

Part 2 Topics in Characterization and Mechanical Properties of Conventional and Advanced Ceramic Materials 181

Chapter 10 Characterization of the Firing Steps and Phases Formed in Mg-Zr-Containing

Refractory Dolomitic Materials 183

Chapter 11 Characterization of Clay Ceramicsn Based on the Recycling of Industrial Residues

– On the Use of Photothermal Techniques to Determine Ceramic Thermal Properties and Gas Emissions during the Clay Firing Process 205

Chapter 12 Mechanical Properties of Kaolin-Base Ceramics During Firing 229

Chapter 13 Mechanical Properties of New Ceramic Materials

Obtained from Granular Solid Residuals

Coming from Mines and Diatomaceous Earth 245

Jaime Vite-Torres, Maria del Carmen Carreno de Leon,

Manuel Vite-Torres and Juan Rodrigo Laguna-Camacho

Chapter 14 Strength of a New All-Ceramic Restorative Material

“Turkom-Cera” Compared to Two Other Alumina-Based

All-Ceramic Systems 259

Bandar M. A. AL-Makramani, Abdul A. A. Razak

and Mohamed I. Abu-Hassan