Summary

Hardbound. This book provides a thorough review on the actual trends in basic and applied research on the strength and fracture of glass and ceramics. The book will prove a useful and dynamic tool for research workers, designers and technologists engaged in the development and manufacture of ceramics or glass. It will also be of use to anybody interested in the strength and fracture of brittle materials.There is a growing demand for a much wider application of ceramics and glass, even in the cases where mechanical load cannot be neglected. This trend is being met with the development of new advanced ceramic and glass materials with markedly better mechanical properties. In the future ceramics will be used increasingly for highly stressed parts of high-temperature heat exchangers, gas turbines, rocket engines and other equipment. A new branch of science called fracture mechanics has been developed, which allows the characterization and description of fai