Abstract
Ceramic materials are being developed for high performance applications because of intrinsic properties that allow a higher probability of survival in increasingly severe environments. However, the same properties that provide advantages can also create disadvantages by requiring high temperatures, pressures and expensive finishing steps to produce an end product. In addition, the reject rate is high, and reliability is low due to the many processing variables which affect the resultant finished product properties. The extreme synthesis and processing requirements, in addition to the number of rejects, contribute to a high manufacturing cost which has prevented the development, and thus use, of many structural refractory ceramics except in specialty applications.
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Logan, K.V. (1995). Self-Propagating Synthesis Route to High Performance Ceramic Materials. In: Batra, R.C. (eds) Contemporary Research in Engineering Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80001-6_18
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